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.

  • Larry Dossey: To Partake of the Universe from Serving Fire
  • Various Voices: R Is for Reverence
  • Peter Matthiessen: Paying Your Respects to a Hotel Room from Talking on the Water: Conversations About Nature and Creativity, p. 114, SL
  • Stephen Mitchell: To Watch Him Tie His Shoelaces from The Gospel According to Jesus
  • Dorothy Day: Ways to Pray from Keys to the Open Gate
  • Nancy Mairs: Your Body Is Not a Pesthouse from Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith and Renewal, p. 382, SL
  • Brenda Peterson: A World in the Washer and Dryer from Nature and Other Mothers, p. 526, SL
  • Joan Chittister: A Spirituality of Work from There Is a Season, p. 312, SL
  • Buson: His Holiness the Abbot from The Essential Haiku, p. 375, SL
  • Thomas Berry: Total Reverence
  • Thich Nhat Hanh: Bow Before the Orchid and the Snail from Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change, p. 207, SL
  • Joan Halifax: A Task for Men with Pregnant Wives from The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth, p. 145, SL
  • Issa: The Flies in the Temple from The Essential Haiku, p. 204, SL
  • G. K. Chesterton: Reverencing Childhood from A Miscellany of Men
  • Joyce Carol Oates: Marriage as Sacred Adventure from Marriages and Infidelities
  • Thomas Moore: Seeing Deeper through Art from Care of the Soul, p. 291, SL
  • Terry Tempest Williams: The Dead Swan from Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, p. 207, SL
  • Melody Ermachild Chavis: The Lady Who Sweeps from Altars in the Street: A Neighborhood Fights to Survive