Notes
Prelude
1. Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (New York: Dell Publishing, 1980), 84.
2. Leonard Cohen, “A Thousand Kisses Deep,” The Leonard Cohen Files, http://tinyurl.com/y9bkha66.
3. Dylan Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night,” in The Poems of Dylan Thomas (New York: New Directions, 1971).
4. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Cosimo Classics, 2007), 18.
5. These words were famously spoken by Truman Capote to put down other writers’ work. See Quote Investigator, http://tinyurl.com/y8grfr55.
6. Online Etymology Dictionary, s.v. “Levity” (accessed January 13, 2018), http://tinyurl.com/ybbbyjrv.
7. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (New York: Simon & Brown, 2016), 95.
8. Leonard Cohen, “Tower of Song,” The Leonard Cohen Files, http://tinyurl.com/yaosaqzr.
9. “Invocation” from Shaking the Tree by Jeanne Lohmann. Reprinted with permission from Fithian Press, a division of Daniel & Daniel Publishers, Inc.
10. Some of these essays first appeared on the On Being Studios blog. A list of my On Being posts from October 5, 2014, onward is at http://tinyurl.com/ybwmhkbe.
I. The View from the Brink: What I Can See from Here
1. Cambridge Dictionary, s.v. “Brink” (accessed January 13, 2018), http://tinyurl.com/y8npy22z.
2. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874–1932, 2nd ed. (Belknap Press, 1961), 109.
3. Courtney E. Martin, “Reuniting with Awe,” On Being (blog), March 6, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/ybdjhwa9.
4. Florida Scott-Maxwell, The Measure of My Days (New York: Penguin Books, 1983), 42.
5. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, s.v. “Thomas Aquinas” (accessed January 11, 2018), http://tinyurl.com/npo9d4u.
6. “The World: Love” from Czesław Milosz New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001. Copyright © 1988, 1991, 1995, 2001 by Czesław Milosz Royalties, Inc. Reprinted with permission from HarperCollins Publishers, and Penguin Random House Ltd.
7. William Butler Yeats, “The Coming of Wisdom with Time,” Bartleby.com, http://tinyurl.com/hu9thkt
8. Emily Dickinson, “Tell the truth but tell it slant—(1263),” Poetry Foundation, http://tinyurl.com/hh2cm5w.
9. Saul McLeod, “Erik Erikson,” Simply Psychology (2017), http://tinyurl.com/7svu5fu.
10. Lucille Clifton, “the death of fred clifton” from Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton: 1965–2010. Copyright © 1987, 1989 by Lucille Clifton. Published by BOA Editions. Reprinted with permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of BOA Editions, Ltd., www.boaeditions.org, and Curtis Brown, Ltd.
II. Young and Old: The Dance of the Generations
1. Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Voiceless,” in The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes (New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), 99.
2. Nelle Morton, The Journey Is Home (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985), 55. See also “Nelle Katherine Morton Facts,” Your Dictionary, http://biography.yourdictionary.com/nelle-katherine-morton.
3. Howard Thurman, The Inward Journey (Richmond, IN: Friends United Press, 2007), 77.
4. Courtney Martin, Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists (Boston: Beacon Press, 2013).
5. Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life, 20th anniversary ed. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2017), 26.
6. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography—The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993).
7. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, trans. Joan M. Burnham (New York: New World Library, 2000), 35.
8. Terrence Real, I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (New York: Scribner, 1998).
9. “The simplicity on the other side of complexity” quoted in John Paul Lederach, The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010), 31.
10. Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses (New York: Vintage Books, 1991), 309.
III. Getting Real:...