The Second Music – Annie Lighthart
https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html%3Fp=6173.html
Prayer – Galway Kinnell
https://poets.org/poem/prayer-9
Quote from “Are You Mr. William Stafford?” – William Stafford
“‘You don’t have to prove anything,’ my mother said. ‘Just be ready for what God sends.’”
You can read the complete poem at: https://theuncarvedblog.com/2015/11/21/william-staffords-last-poem-now-seemed-prophetic-an-unintended-literary-epitaph/
You Were Meant – Em Claire
https://tiferetjournal.com/all-of-this-em-claire/
Your Playing Small Does Not Serve the World – Marianne Williamson, excerpted lines from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9237876-your-playing-small-does-not-serve-the-world-there-is
Invitation – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
https://www.ekhartyoga.com/articles/philosophy/the-invitation-a-poem-by-oriah-mountain-dreamer For a note by the author on the origin of the poem, go to https://www.bhavanalearning.com/wp-content/uploads/Oriah-The-Invitation-and-History.pdf
Meditation in Wyatt’s – Albert Huffsticker
https://intrinsicheart.com/meditation-in-wyatts/
Epiphany – Thomas Merton (excerpt from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander). He describes a mystical experience at the corner of Fourth and Walnut in Louisville, Kentucky, March 18, 1958,. A large historical marker commemorating that event is located at the site.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2464342-in-louisville-at-the-corner-of-fourth-and-walnut-in For a photo of the plaque, go to https://www.spiritualtravels.info/spiritual-sites-around-the-world/north-america/kentucky-a-thomas-merton-tour/thomas-mertons-mystical-vision-in-louisville/
Quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/717-be-patient-toward-all-that-is-unsolved-in-your-heart
In Praise of Singers – Michael Leunig
https://intrinsicheart.com/sing-sing-sing/
