Angelus Silesius
1624-1677, Germany
Beatrice of Nazareth
1200-1268, Flanders
Catherine of Siena
1347-1380, Italy
Clare of Assisi
1194-1253, Italy
Dame Catherine Gascoigne
1600-1676, England
Dante Alighieri
1265-1321, Italy
Dionysius the Areopagite
5th cent., Greece
Edith Stein
1891-1942, Germany
Emily Brontë
1818-1848, England
Francis of Assisi
1182-1226, Italy
Hadewijch
13th Cent., Holland
Hildegard of Bingen
1098-1179, Germany
Jacopone da Todi
1236-1306, Italy
Jesus
0000-0033, Israel
John of the Cross
1542-1591, Spain
Marguerite Porete
14th cent., France
Meister Eckhart
1260-1328, Germany
Mechthild of Magdeburg
1207-1282, Germany
Mother Julian of Norwich
1342-1416, England
Paul Tillich
1886-1965, Germany
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
1881-1955, France
Ramon Llull
1232-1315, Spain
Reinhold Niebuhr
1892-1971, Germany
Symeon the New Theologian
949-1022, Turkey
Teresa of Avila
1515-1582, Spain
Thérèse of Lisieux
1873-1897, France
Thomas a' Kempis
1380-1471, Germany
Thomas Merton
1915-1968, USA
Thomas Traherne
1637?-1674, England
Vladimir Solovyov
1853-1900, Russia
Vittoria de Colonna
1490-1547, Italy
Plus readings from the Canonical and Gnostic Gospels and other early Christian texts
Abu-Said Abil-Kheir
967-1049, Turkmenistan
Abu'I Husyn-Nuri
Unknown
Abdul-Qader Bedil
1642-1720, Persia (Iran)
Al Ghazzoli
Unknown
Al-Qozat Hamadani
Unknown
Attar
1142-1220, Persia
Ayn al Qozat
1098-1131, Persia
Baba Kuhi Shiraz
980?-1050, Persia
Binavi Badakhshani
13th cent., Afghanistan
Bulleh Shah
1680-1758, India
Farid ud-Din Attar, Iraqi
13th cent., Persia
Francis Brabzaon
1907-1984, Australia
Hafiz
1320-1390, Persia
Hakim Abu–al-Majd
1080-1141, Afghanistan
Hakim Sani
12th cent., Afghanistan
Hazrat Inayat Khan
1887-1927, India
Imadeddin Nasimi
1369-1418, Azerbaijan
Javad Nurbakhsh
1926-2008, Iran
Jelaluddin Rumi
1207-1273, Persia
Kabir
1440-1518, India
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
1006-1088, Afghanistan
Meher Baba
1894-1964, India
Mansur al-Hallaj Al Hallaj
858-922, Persia
Moulana Shah Maghsoud
1914-1980, Iran
Muhyaddin ibi' Aribi
1165-1240, Spain
Niffari
10th cent., Egypt
Niyazi Misri
1616-1694, Turkey
Qushayri
11th cent., Persia
Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya
717-801, Iraq
Rahman Baba
1652-1701, Afghanistan
Sarmad
17th cent.
Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai
1689-1752, Pakistan
Sharib Nawaz
1141-1230, Pakistan
Sultan Bahu
1625-1691, Persia
Sultan Valad
1240-1312, Turkey
Akka Mahadevi
12th cent., India
Basava
1134-1196, India
Bhaga Namdev
1270-1350, India
Dariya
1674-1780, India
Darshan Sing
1921-1989, India
Derva Dasimayya
10th Cent., India
Eknath Easwaran
1910-1999, India
Guru Nanak
1469-1539, India
Janabai
13th cent., India
Janadev
1275-1296, India
Kalidasa
4th or 5th cent., India
Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, India
Mirabai
1498-1550, India
Osho (Bhagavan Sree Rajneesh)
1931-1990, India
Patanjali
2nd cent. B.C.E., India
Paramahansa Yogananda
1893-1952, India
Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941, India
Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
1931 - , U.S.
Ramana Maharshi
1879-1950, India
Ramprasad Sen
1723-1775, India
Sathya Sai Baba
1926-2011, India
Shankara
788-820, India
Sri Anandamayi Ma
1896-1982, India
Sri Aurobindo
1872-1950, India
Sri Chinmoy
1931-2007, India
Sri Ramakrishna
1836-1886, India
Sri Sukhabodhananda
Unknown
Swami Akhilananda
1926-1962, India/US
Swami Sai Premananda
1972-2011, West Indies
Swami Muktananda
1908-1982, India
Swami Rama
1925-1996, India
Swami Satchidananda
1914-2002, India
Swami Sivananda
1887-1963, India
Swami Vielammada
Unknown
Swami Vivekananda
1863-1972, India
Tiruvalluvar
1st cent. B.C.E., India
Vidyapati
1352-1448, India
Yogi Bhajan
1929-2004, India
Yagaswami
1872-1964, Sri Lanka
Plus readings from the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam
Alan Watts
1915-1973, Britain
Bodhidharma
6th cent., China
Buddha
500 B.C.E., India
Chao-Chou Ts'ung-shen
778-897, China
Chiao Jan
8th cent., China
Ching-Yuan
660-740, China
Chiyono Hasegawa
1896-2011
Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche
1939-1987, Tibet
Dogen
1200-1253, Japan
Feng Kan
8th cent., China
Great Kamo Priestess Senshi
964-1035, Japan
Han-Shan
730-850, China
Hsuan Chuen
Unknown, China
Hsu Yun
1840-1959, China
Hakuen
12th cent., Japan
Kelsan Gyatso
1708-1757, Tibet
Layman Seiken
11th cent., Japan
Ma-tsu Tao i
709-788, Japan
Matsuo Basho
1644-1694, Japan
Milarepa
1052-1135, Tibet
Myochi Roko Sherry Chayat
1940- , USA
Nagarjuna
150-250?, India
Naropa
1016-1100, Tibet
Padmasambhava
8th cent., Tibet
P'ang Yun
740?-808, China
Pema Chödrön
Contemporary, Nova Scotia
Saraha
1st or 2nd cent., India
Sakyong Mishram Rimpoche
1962- , India
Saryajnamita
8th cent., Kashmir
Sengai Bibon
1750-1837, Japan
Seng Ts'an
D. 606, Japan
Sen-no-Rikyu
1522-1591, Japan
Shabkar
1781-1837, Tibet
Shih-shu
17th cent., China
Sumangalamata
6th cent. B.C.E., India
Sun Bu-er
Unknown
Su yun
Unknown
Ta'o Chien
Unknown
Tenzin Gyatso,
the 14th Dalai Lama
1935- , Tibet
Thich Nhat Hanh,
1929- , Vietnam
Tu Fu
Unknown
Van Hanh
11th cent., Vietnam
Wang Wei
699?-761, China
Wu Men
1183-1260, China
Yasutani Roshi
1885-1973, Japan
Yeshe Tsogyel
8th cent., Tibet
Yoka Genkaku
665-713, China
Yuquan Shenxiu
670-762, China
Yung Chia
7th cent., China
Yun-men
864-949, China
Zengetsu
Tang Dynasty, China
Plus readings from the Pali Canon, The Dhammapada, The Diamond Sutra, and various other sutras
Chuang Tzu
369-286 B.C.E., China
Chi K'ang
224-263, China
Chio Jan
730-799, China
Han-shan
730-850, China
Huai-nan-Tzu
2nd cent. B.C.E.
Lao Tzu c.
600-300 B.C.E., China
Li Po
701-762, China
Loy Ching-Yuen
1873-1960
Sun-Bu-er
1119-1182, China
T'ao Ch-ien
365-427, China
Tu Fu
712-770, China
Wong We Sheh-Tou
Unknown
Yan Mei
1716-1798, China
Yoka Genkaku
665-713, China
Yuan Lu Tung-Pin
B. 726 E.E., China
Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia
1240-1295?, Spain
Abraham Joshua Heschel
1907-1972, Poland
Eleazar ben Kallir
6th century, Israel
Isaac of Acco
13th or 14th cent., Israel
Judah Halevi
1075-1141, Spain
Levi Yitzchak
1740-1810, Poland
Maggid of Merzeritch
1710?-1772, Poland
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero
1522-1570, Spain
Moses De Leon
(Moses ben Shem Tov)
1245?-1270, Spain
Nachmanides
1194-?, Spain
Nachman of Bratzlav
1772-1810, Ukraine
Sarmad
?-1659, Persia
Solomon 'ibn-Gabirol
1021?-1058, Spain
Yanni
6th cent., Israel
Plus readings from the Bible and the Zohar
Albert Einstein
1879-1955, Germany
Alice Bailey
1880-1949, England
Andrew Cohen
1955- , USA
Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, England
David Hawkins
1913-2012, USA
Czeslaw Milosz
1911-2004, Poland
Eckhart Tolle
1948- , Germany
Eileen Caddy
1917-2006, Egypt
Gabriela Mistral
1889-1957, Chile
Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, USA
J. Krishnamurti
1895-1986, India
Juan Ramon Jimenez
1881-1958, Andalusia
Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanon
Olga Ramussen
Unknown
Plato
c. 428 B.C.E., Greece
Plotinus
205-270, Egypt
Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, Austria
Theodore Roethke
1908-1963, USA
Thomas Treherne
1630-1674, England
William Blake
1757-1827, England