1. Macrina Wiederkehr, Seasons of Your Heart: Prayers and Reflections, Revised and Expanded (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 8.
Part I Know the Tree
1. Judy Maier, “Revealing the ‘Essence of the Tree’: Aesthetic Pruning of Japanese Maples,” Pacific Horticulture 73, no. 1 (Jan. 2012), http://www.pacifichorticulture.org/articles/revealing-the-essence-of-the-tree-aesthetic-pruning-of-japanese-maples/.
Chapter 1 Leaves and Branches
1. Gene Weingarten, “Pearls before Breakfast: Can One of the Nation’s Great Musicians Cut through the Fog of a DC Rush Hour? Let’s Find Out,” Washington Post Magazine, April 8, 2007, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/pearls-before-breakfast-can-one-of-the-nations-great-musicians-cut-through-the-fog-of-a-dc-rush-hour-lets-find-out/2014/09/23/8a6d46da-4331-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?utm_term=.ff81c02b64b0.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. The Enneagram Institute, https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-3/.
6. “The State of American Vacation 2017,” Project: Time Off, May 23, 2017, https://projecttimeoff.com/reports/the-state-of-american-vacation-2017/.
7. Gillian Coutts, “Feeling Stressed and Unproductive? Here’s How to Stop Being Busy and Be Mindful Instead,” Smart Company, February 12, 2016, http://www.smartcompany.com.au/finance/62947-feeling-stressed-and-unproductive-heres-how-to-stop-being-busy-and-be-mindful-instead/.
8. John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring for the Most Important Part of You (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014), 59.
9. Ibid.
10. Dr. Caroline Leaf, Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2013), 83.
11. Ibid., 84.
Chapter 2 Beneath the Canopy
1. “David Tutor Performs John Cage’s 4’33”, 1952, Artforum video, https://www.artforum.com/video/id=21612&mode=large&page_id=18.
2. Richard Kostelantz, Conversations with Cage (New York: Limelight Editions, 1988), 65–66.
3. Leaf, Switch On Your Brain, 82.
4. Maier, “Revealing the ‘Essence of the Tree.’”
5. Ruth Haley Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God’s Transforming Presence (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2004), 96.
6. Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000), 7–8.
7. Adam McHugh, The Listening Life: Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2015), 181.
Chapter 3 Broken Limbs
1. Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011), ix.
2. Ibid., xvii.
3. Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006), 190.
4. Dallas Willard, Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2012), 130–31.
5. Rohr, Falling Upward, 21.
6. Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2006), 27.
7. Ibid., 22.
8. Ibid.
9. Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence, 50–51.
Chapter 4 Seeds of Desire
1. Enneagram Institute, https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-3.
2. Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions, 1986), 28.
3. Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence, 50.
4. Ibid., 96.
Part II Fukinaoshi of the Soul
1. Jake Hobson, Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way (Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2007), 49.
Chapter 5 The Hard Prune
1. Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 163.
2. Ibid., 210.
3. St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul, trans. by E. Allison Peers, from the critical edition of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa, C.D. (New York: Dover Publications, 2003), 8, 78.
4. Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence, 104.
5. Hobson, Niwaki, 50.
6. Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa, 192–93.
7. Richard Rohr, “Mystery Is Endless Knowability,” Center for Action and Contemplation, August 23, 2016, https://cac.org/mystery-endless-knowability-2016-08-23/.
8. Larry Crabb, “God Meets Us Where We Are . . . ,” Larry Crabb’s NewWay Ministries Blog, November 2, 2011, https://newwaymin.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/god-meets-us-where-we-are/.
9. Ortberg, Soul Keeping, 65.
10. Rohr, “Mystery Is Endless Knowability.”
11. Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2000), 30.
12. Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1981), 27.
13. Blue Letter Bible, accessed May 21, 2018, https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?t=kjv&strongs=h3290.
14. Blue Letter Bible, accessed May 21, 2018, https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H6117&t=KJV.
15. Bible Study Tools, accessed May 21, 2018, https://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/kjv/aqob.html.
16. Barton, Invitation to Solitude and Silence, 93.
17. Mark Buchanan, Spiritual Rhythm: Being with Jesus Every Season of Your Soul (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010), 50.
18. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2000), 35.
Chapter 6 The Far Side of the Wilderness
1. Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1956), 96.
2. Ibid., 79.
3. Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark (New York: HarperCollins, 2014), 87.
4. Sue Monk Kidd, When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), 136.
Chapter 7 Rooted
1. Elizabeth J. Canham, “A School for the Lord’s Service,” Weavings 9 (January–February 1995), 15; as quoted in Jane Tomaine, St. Benedict’s Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday Benedictine Living (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 2005), 45.
2. Daniel K. Eisenbud, “Ancient Tablets Reveal Daily Life of Exiled Jews in Babylon 2,500 Years Ago,” Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2015, http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Ancient-tablets-reveal-daily-life-of-exiled-Jews-in-Babylon-2500-years-ago-389864.
3. Ibid.
4. Tomaine, St. Benedict’s Toolbox, 46.
5. Hobson, Niwaki, 49.
6. Canham, “A School for the Lord’s Service,” 15; as quoted in Tomaine, St. Benedict’s Toolbox, 83.
7. Kidd, When the Heart Waits, 132.
8. Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 2009), 142.
9. Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016), 75.
10. Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2015), 34–35.
Part III Shaping
1. Hobson, Niwaki, 52.
Chapter 8 Twine and Splint
1. Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promise of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters (New York: Penguin, 2009), xviii.
2. Emily Dickinson, “I’m Nobody, Who Are You?” in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series, eds. T. W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891), 21.
3. Henry David Thoreau, Life without Principle, 1863, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/life.html.
4. Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013), 52.
5. Lee Reich, “How To: Removing Root Suckers,” Fine Gardening, http://www.finegardening.com/video-removing-root-suckers.
6. Hobson, Niwaki, 52.
7. Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 7.
8. Shinrin-yoku.org, http://www.shinrin-yoku.org/shinrin-yoku.html.
9. Carolyn Gregoire, “The New Science of the Creative Brain on Nature,” Outside, March 18, 2016, https://www.outsideonline.com/2062221/new-science-creative-brain-nature.
10. Ibid.
11. Quoted in Charles J. Healy, Praying with the Jesuits: Finding God in All Things (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 2011), 45.
Chapter 9 Way Opens
1. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak, 12.
2. Philip Gulley, “Quaker Sayings 5: Proceed as the Way Opens,” accessed October 23, 2017, http://philipgulley.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Quaker-Sayings-5.pdf.
3. Author Dani Shapiro offered this quote from Dolly Parton in her interview on The Beautiful Writers podcast, episode entitled “Jennifer Rudolph Walsh on Together-ness,” accessed October 23, 2017, https://soundcloud.com/user-780938996/jennifer-walsh-on-together-ness.
4. Literary agent Jennifer Rudolph Walsh offered this quote from Mark Twain in her interview on The Beautiful Writers podcast, episode entitled “Jennifer Rudolph Walsh on Together-ness,” accessed October 23, 2017, https://soundcloud.com/user-780938996/jennifer-walsh-on-together-ness.
5. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak, 13.
6. Merton, Thoughts in Solitude, 69.
7. “Michelangelo’s Prisoners or Slaves,” Accademia.org, http://www.accademia.org/explore-museum/artworks/michelangelos-prisoners-slaves/.
8. James M. Saslow, The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), 35.
9. As quoted in Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark (New York: HarperCollins, 2014), 179.
10. Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 2010), xiv.
11. Eric Liddell quote from Chariots of Fire, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082158/quotes.
12. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 119.
13. Cultivated Podcast, “Andy Crouch, Part 2” (episode 12), February 7, 2017, http://www.harbormedia.com/blog/2017/2/6/episode-12-andy-crouch-part-2.
14. “The Inner Landscape of Beauty,” On Being, August 6, 2015; https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odonohue-the-inner-landscape-of-beauty/.
15. Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day,” https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html.
Chapter 10 Water, Wood, Air, and Stone
1. Henri Nouwen, Making All Things New: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2009), 87.
2. Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (New York: Free Press, 2011), 60.
3. Henri Nouwen, Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 124.
4. Voskamp, The Broken Way, 68–69.
5. “Discipleship: Looking to Our Neighbor, to Jesus, and to God,” Luke 10: IVP New Testament Commentaries, Bible Gateway, https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/IVP-NT/Luke/Discipleship-Looking-Our-Jesus.
6. Ibid.
7. Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart, 188.
8. Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Greystone Books, 2016), 10.
9. Robert Macfarlane, “The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web,” New Yorker, August 7, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-secrets-of-the-wood-wide-web.
10. Wohlleben, Hidden Life of Trees, 17.
Epilogue
1. Tricia Smyth, “Aesthetic Pruning of Japanese Maples,” Essence of the Tree, https://www.essenceofthetree.com/articles/aesthetic-pruning-of-japanese-maples/.