Thanks for permission to reprint excerpts from the following previously published works:
Excerpts on pages vi and 74 from “Dance, Lalla, with Nothing On,” by Lalleshwari, from Naked Song, edited by Coleman Barks. Athens, GA: Maypop Books, 1992. Reprinted by permission of Coleman Barks.
Excerpt(s) from The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Ávila, translated by Mirabai Starr, translation copyright © 2003 by Mirabai Starr. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. In the UK: From The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Ávila, published by Rider Books. Reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd. © 2003.
Excerpt from The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Copyright © 1951 by Abraham Joshua Heschel, renewed 1979 by Sylvia Heschel. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Rumi, “The Song of the Reed,” translated by Kabir Helminski and Camille Helminski, from The Rumi Collection, edited by Kabir Helminski. Copyright © 1998 by Kabir Helminski. Reprinted by arrangement with The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boulder Colorado, shambhala.com.
Excerpt from Teresa of Ávila: The Book of My Life, translated by Mirabai Starr, © 2007 by Mirabai Starr. Reprinted by arrangement with The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of New Seeds Books, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, shambhala.com.
Rabia, “I Carry a Torch,” from Women of Sufism, selected and introduced by Camille Adams Helminski, © 2003 by Camille Adams Helminski. Reprinted by arrangement with The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, shambhala.com.
Excerpt(s) from Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, edited by Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield. Copyright © 2004 by Robert Bly and Jane Hirshfield. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.
Excerpt(s) from The Song of Songs: A New Translation and Commentary by Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch. Copyright © 1995 by Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch. Reprinted by permission of George Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch.
Excerpts from Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda, translated by C. John Holcombe. Santiago, Chile: Ocaso Press, 2008. Reprinted by permission of Colin Holcombe.
Ramprasad, “I Am a Child Reaching Out to Catch the Moon,” translated by Lex Hixon in Mother of the Universe: Visions of the Goddess and Tantric Hymns of Enlightenment. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1994.
Excerpt from Be Love Now by Ram Dass and Rameshwar Das. Copyright © 2010 by Ram Dass and Rameshwar Das. Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpts from Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls, edited by Ellen Babinsky. Copyright © 1993 by Ellen L. Babinsky. Paulist Press, Inc., New York/Mahwah, NJ. Reprinted by permission of Paulist Press, Inc., paulistpress.com.
Excerpt from Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen, edited by Gabriele Uhlein, published by Inner Traditions International and Bear & Company, ©1983, innertraditions.com. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of publisher.
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, “The Morning Glory,” from Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I: Zen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. © Buddhist Society Trust.
Excerpts from The Showings of Julian of Norwich, translated by Mirabai Starr. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2013.
Adaptations of Natalie Goldberg’s writing exercises used by permission.