Here is a list of the many spiritual teachers quoted on this episode of Spiritual Literacy. Listed are the author, the title of the reading, the original source of the reading, and the page in Spiritual Literacy (SL) or another book where you will find it.

  • Paul Reps: The Overflowing Tea Cup from Zen Flesh Zen Bones
  • Various Voices: O Is for Openness
  • Gunilla Norris: The Trust of Leaves from Journeying in Place: Reflections from a Country Garden, p. 133, SL
  • Morton Kelsey: Nighttime Conversation with God from Set Your Hearts on the Greatest Gift, p. 286, SL
  • John Cowan: Tugging Toes from The Common Table, p. 376, SL
  • Macrina Wiederkehr: A Tree for a Spiritual Director from A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary, p. 132, SL
  • Jelaluddin Rumi: Stay Quiet from The Essential Rumi
  • Sylvia Boorstein: Look at All These People Going Places from It's Easier Than You Think
  • Anthony de Mello: The Boy and the Stuck Truck from The Heart of the Enlightened, p. 278, SL
  • Pema Chodron: Meeting Our Resistances from When Things Fall Apart
  • Evan Pritchard: Things Fall Together from No Word for Time
  • Sue Monk Kidd: The Bird Who Needs to Be Still from When the Heart Waits, p. 198, SL
  • Gaston Bachelard: Things Look at Us
  • Denise Levertov: All-Surrounding Grace from Oblique Prayers "The Avowal", p. 252, SL
  • Jack Kornfield and Christina Feldman: Two Monks and the Young Woman from Soul Food: Stories to Nourish the Spirit and the Heart
  • Anthony de Mello: The Temple Bells from The Song of the Bird, p. 142, SL