1 Joshu Sasaki Roshi, interview by Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, December 9, 2007.
2 Ibid.
3 Abraham Abulafia, thirteenth-century Kabbalist, quoted in Moshe Idel’s The Mystical Experience of Abraham Abulafia.
4 Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, trans. Swami Nikhilananda (New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 2007).
5 J. Krishnamurti, public talk in Brockwood Park School, Hampshire, England, September 7, 1980.
6 Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistles, trans. Richard M. Gummere (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920).
7 Martin Buber, I and Thou (New York: Touchstone, 1970), 61.
8 Gene Roddenberry, interview by David Alexander, The Humanist. (March/April 1991).
9 Karen Armstrong, interview by Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, September 21, 2009.
10 The Forward and Daniel Estrin, “The King’s Torah: A Rabbinic Text or a Call to Terror?,” Haaretz, January 22, 2010.
11 Steven Weinberg, “A Designer Universe?,” address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC, April 1999.
12 Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra-firme del mar océano. (Charleston, SC: Nabu Press, 2014).
13 Karen Armstrong, quoted in Jay Sidebotham’s Conversations with Scripture: Romans (New York: Morehouse Publishing, 2015).
14 Alan Watts, Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality (New York: New World Library, 2007), 60.
15 Karen Armstrong, interview by Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, September 21, 2009.
16 Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize lecture, Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1980.
17 James Geary, The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism (New York: Bloomsbury, 2005), 9.
18 Ibid., 15–16.
19 Alan Watts, Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2017).