CHAPTER 1
1. “The Journey” from Dream Work by Mary Oliver. Copyright © 1986 by Mary Oliver. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
CHAPTER 3
Epigraph: Jarvis Jay Masters, Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row (Junction City, CA: Padma Publishing), pg. 111
1. A bodhisattva is an awakened being who commits their life to helping others awaken.
2. The Jata Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya 7.6.
3. “Redemption Song” by Bob Marley from Uprising by Bob Marley and the Wailers, Island Records, 1980.
CHAPTER 4
Epigraph: Paraphrase of the Dhammapada, XX, verse 4: “You, yourselves, must walk the path. Buddhas only show the way.”
1. From “To Build a Swing,” in Hafiz, The Gift (New York: Penguin Compass, 1999).
2. http://newbeginningsprayer.org/reflections_-_thomas_merton.
3. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923).
4. From the Assu Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya 15.3. Samsara is a Sanskrit and Pali word meaning “wandering.” It refers to the endless round of suffering, much of which we create for ourselves.
CHAPTER 5
1. From The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
2. From an address to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, November 9, 1984.
3. Lorna Kelly, The Camel Knows the Way (self-published, 2004).
CHAPTER 6
Epigraph: Wendell Berry, “To Know the Dark,” from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 1999).
1. Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (New York: Random House, 1979).
2. Jack Kornfield, Buddha’s Little Instruction Book (New York: Bantam, 1994).
CHAPTER 7
Epigraph: Thich Nhat Hanh, The Path of Emancipation, (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2000).
1. From Jennifer Welwood, Poems for the Path (self-published).
CHAPTER 9
Epigraph: Often attributed to Aboriginal elder Lilla Watson, she has asked that it be attributed to the ‘Aboriginal Activist Group, Queensland, 1975.’ See http://unnecessaryevils.blogspot.com/2008/11/attributing-words.html
1. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009).
2. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, A Third Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 1996).
3. The Four Noble Truths are the Buddha’s basic teaching on suffering and on the transformation of suffering by way of the Noble Eightfold Path.
CHAPTER 10
1. Ajahn Chah, The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah (Chennai, India: Aruna Publications, 2011).
2. Pema Chödrön, The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2002).
3. Jarvis Jay Masters, Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row (Junction City, CA: Padma Publishing, 1997).
4. From Jennifer Welwood, Poems for the Path (self-published).
CHAPTER 11
Epigraph: While Nelson Mandela has used this quote, its original source is unclear. http://blogs.shu.edu/diplomacyresearch/2013/12/11/an-exemplar-of-forgiving-prisoner-nelson-mandela/
1. The Plan of Delano, 1966. http://chavez.cde.ca.gov/ModelCurriculum/Public/Justice.aspx.
2. Eknath Easwaran paraphrasing the Buddha in Eknath Easwaran, To Love Is to Know Me: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living (Vol. 3) (Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1993).
3. For more on Bryon Widner, see the documentary Erasing Hate, MSNBC, 2011.
4. The Dhammapada, I, verse 5.
CHAPTER 12
Epigraph: Eduardo Galeano, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (New York: Nation Books, 2010).
1. Satipatthana Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya 10.
2. Life Magazine, June 1996; Reader’s Digest, May 1996.
3. Thich Nhat Hanh, The Long Road Turns to Joy (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2011).
4. Herbert Benson, MD, The Relaxation Response (New York: William Morrow, 2000).
CHAPTER 13
1. A. J. Arberry, Mystical Poems of Rumi, poem 112 (Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press, 1968).
2. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, * Kindness, Clarity, and Insight (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1984, 2013).
3. Sedaka Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya 47:19.
4. Derek Walcott, Collected Poems, 1948–1984 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987).
CHAPTER 14
Epigraph: Martin Luther King Jr., “Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom,” Ebony Magazine, 1966.
1. Alice Calaprice, The New Quotable Einstein (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2005).
2. According to Wiktionary, accessed July 19th, 2017, “From Kiowa aho (“thank you”), and loaned to many other Native American languages during the 20th century because it was frequently heard at pow-wows and widely used in the Native American Church (NAC).” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aho.
CHAPTER 15
1. See Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace (New York: Bantam, 2008).
2. Lotus Sutra, chapter 7.
3. Popularly paraphrased like this, from Margaret Meade, Continuities in Cultural Evolution (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 1999).
4. Gandhi’s Prayer for Peace, Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Ten Prayers that Changed the World (Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2016).
5. Upaddha Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya 45.2.
6. Martin Luther King Jr., from “Advice for the Living” in Chicago, Il, November 1957, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., volume IV (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.)
CHAPTER 16
1. Adapted from Shantideva, Bodhicaryavatara (The Bodhisattva Way of Life), chapter 3.
2. http://www.joannamacy.net/engaged-buddhism/225-learning-to-see-each-other.html.
3. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (August, 1963). https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf.
4. John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks (Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2014).
5. https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/cultural_drversity/g_washington_carver_historic_site.html.
6. https://sites.google.com/site/capucinehenryredondalailama/never-give-up—dalai-lama.
7. “Keep Moving from this Mountain,” Founders Day Address, Spelman College, 10 April 1960: https://swap.stanford.edu/20141218225553/http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol5/10Apr1960_KeepMovingfromThis-Mountain,AddressatSpelmanCollege.pdf.