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The canonical hours / Dick Allen -- Climbing to Christmas / Marvin Barrett -- The heart of a forest / Rick Bass -- Call me Ishi / Joseph Bruchac -- To himself / Scott Cairns -- Reign of flowers / Leonie Caldecott -- A readiness remembered / Stephen V. Doughty -- Love in the morning / Andre Dubus -- Cold comfort / Gretel Ehrlich -- The good life / Joseph Epstein -- The very short sutra on the meeting of the Buddha and the Goddess / Rick Fields -- The stereopticon / Frederick Franck -- What are you looking for? / Marc Gellman -- Dog bite enlightenment / Natalie Goldberg -- Simone Weil: lecture on love / Edward Hirsch -- Silence at the heart: the new landscape of Jewish meditative practice / Rodger Kamenetz -- Why I don't meditate / Anne Lamott -- Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit / Madeleine L'Engle -- When the shift was over / Philip Levine -- God's love on a darkling plain / Barry Lopez -- An offering / Nancy Mairs -- Embarrassment's perpetual blush / Frederica Mathewes-Green -- A vision of good secrets / William Meredith -- Why I pray / Rick Moody -- Mystic clouds and natural spirituality / Thomas Moore -- Twirling a flower: the question of form / Noelle Oxenhandler -- Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy / Cynthia Ozick -- Seas of light swept through it / Kimberley C. Patton -- A long and sizable farewell / Reynolds Price -- The old morgue / Francine Prose -- The music of silence / Phyllis Rose -- Wheels of dharma / Lawrence Shainberg -- Rising: the underground tree / Luci Shaw -- What they have that we lack: a tribute to the Native Americans via Joseph Epes Brown / Huston Smith -- Praying the great dance / David Steindl-Rast -- Lost Atlantis: nude scientists, giant sharks, bad vibes, and me / Ptolemy Tompkins -- The good-bye koan / Janwillem van de Wetering -- Listening days / Terry Tempest Williams. |
