16.  Burton Watson, Saigyo, Poems of a Mountain Home (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 93.

FLINT WORK

1.  First published in Sufi, A Journal of Sufism. London: Khaniquahi Minatullahi Publications, Issue 42, Spring 1999.

2.  The three italicized paragraphs about the Sufi master and his apprentice originally appeared as the story, “The Desert and the Marketplace” in my book of stories, As Far As the Heart Can See (Deerfield, FL: HCI Publications, 2011), 189. This essay grew out of that story.

3.  Theodore Roethke, “A Light Breather” in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, ed. Arthur M. Eastman. (New York: Norton, 1983), 1118.

4.  Stephen Mitchell (trans.), The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (New York: Vintage, 1984), 25.

5.  See “The Therapist” in Magritte, edited by David Larkin. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972). Originally painted in 1937.

6.  Arthur M. Eastman (ed.), The Norton Anthology of Poetry (New York: Norton, 1983), 954.

7.  This is an early version of the poem “Gemseed,” which first appeared in my book Suite for the Living, 2004, p. 53, and which later appeared in an evolved version as the story “In the Mirror” in my book As Far As the Heart Can See, 2011, p. 95.

8.  Anne H. Soukhanov (ed.), American Heritage Dictionary (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992), 614.

THE BRIDGE OF WELL-BEING

1.  First published in Parabola, The Magazine of Myth and Tradition, Volume XX, No. 2, Summer 1995, pp. 17–20. Substantially rewritten for this edition.

2.  Anne H. Soukhanov (ed.), The American Heritage Dictionary (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992), 670, 2022.

3.  Ibid., 1774.

4.  Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1955), xv.

5.  Marguerite Yourcenar, With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984), 260.

6.  Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) are the great woodblock print masters of Japan. Their imagination, skill, and volume of work make them the Michelangelo and Leonardo of Japanese art. The Suspension Bridge Between Hida and Etchu, shown here, was one of a series of bridges created in early 1830s by Hokusai (now in the Leeds Museum and Gallery, Leeds, UK).

7.  This last paragraph later became part of my poem “Earth Prayer,” which first appeared in my book Suite for the Living, 2004, p. 43.

Permissions

PERMISSIONS

Thanks for permission to reprint excerpts from the following previously published works:

“God, Self, and Medicine” was first published in Voices, the Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists (Fall 1989, Vol. 25, No. 3). The essay also appears as a chapter in the nursing text The Patient’s Voice: Experiences of Illness, edited by Jeanine Young-Mason. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1997, pp. 136–142.

A prose version of “Tu Fu’s Reappearance” appears as a story in my book As Far As the Heart Can See, HCI Publications, 2011, p. 187.

“Endgame,” which also appears in my book Suite for the Living (Bread for the Journey, 2004), p. 70, first appeared in the original edition of Inside the Miracle, then titled Acre of Light (Ithaca House Books, 1994), p. 57.

“Endgame,” “For That,” “Letter Home,” “Setting Fires in the Rain,” “Surviving Has Made Me Crazy,” and “Tu Fu’s Reappearance” first appeared in Greenfield Review Press.

“A Terrible Knowledge” was first published in The Journal of Pastoral Counseling (Iona College), 1994 annual issue, pp. 153–165.