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Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search by Steven Harrison. Copyright © Steven Harrison, 1997. By permission of Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. By permission of Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Kabir: Ecstatic Poems, adapted by Robert Bly. Copyright © 2004 by Robert Bly. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.

I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Translated from the Marathi recordings by Maurice Frydman, edited by Sudhakar S. Dikshit. The Acorn Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1997.

Living Zen by Robert Linssen. By permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“Second Part: 29” from Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by M. D. Herter Norton. Copyright 1942 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., renewed © 1970 by M. D. Herter Norton. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, translations by Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin Compass). Copyright © 1999 by Daniel Ladinsky. Reprinted by permission of Daniel Ladinsky.

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. By permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg. Reprinted with permission of PuddleDancer Press.

“December 8” from The Path to Tranquillity by The Dalai Lama, edited by Renuka Singh. Copyright © The Dalai Lama and Renuka Singh, 1999. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Summer Meditations by Vaclav Havel. By permission of Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

“I Am Alive,” translation by Rabbi David Zeller of a selection from The Light of the Eyes by Rabbi Menachem Nachum. By permission of Rabbi David Zeller (www.davidzeller.org).

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* The last four beliefs come from workshops with Stephen Wolinsky.

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*The idea behind dowsing, or water witching, is to locate underground water using a divining rod, which can be a forked stick or two wires, one held in each hand. You set an intention—I want to find a clear well—then walk through an area with a forked stick or two bent wires until the wires cross or the forked stick pulls downward when you are over the well. It is an age-old skill in which the person holding the divining rod becomes part of an electromagnetic field combining mental intention, mind, and the sought-after water.

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Kasl, Charlotte Davis.

If the Buddha got stuck : a handbook for change on a spiritual path / by Charlotte Sophia Kasl.

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1. Religious life—Buddhism. I. Title. BQ4302.K37 2005

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