Foreword by Madeleine K. Albright. A Note to Our Readers by Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner. Introduction by Parker J. Palmer. Called. Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses. reflection by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president, Waterkeeper Alliance. Emily Dickinson's 'Hope' is the thing with feathers [Excerpt]. reflection by Nicole Gagnon, college student leader. Langston Hughes's Madam's Calling Card. reflection by Kyle Dodson, high school principal. William Stafford's The Way It Is. reflection by Michael Intrator, managing director, emissions trading company. William Carlos Williams's Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [Excerpt]. reflection by Peter S. Temes, president, ILO Institute. Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History [Excerpt]. reflection by Rosemary Jordano Shore, founder, ChildrenFirst. William Blake's Songs of Innocence [Excerpt]. reflection by Michael Singleton, director of coaching, Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association. Gary Snyders's For the Children. reflection by Betsy Taylor, founder, Center for the New American Dream. Theodore Roethke's Cuttings (Later). reflection by Brian D. McLaren, author, speaker, evangelical activist. T. S. Eliot's Little Gidding [Excerpt]. reflection by Kathleen Kostelny, international consultant on children affected by war and violence. Marge Piercy's To be of use. reflection by Martha Bergmark, president, Mississippi Center for Justice. Eugene McCarthy's Ares. reflection by Mary Beth Yarrow, documentary film producer. Defining Moments. Adrienne Rich's In Those Years. reflection by Peter Karoff, founder and chairman, The Philanthropic Initiative. Wendell Berry's A Vision. reflection by Barbara Hummel, corporate and nonprofit facilitator. William Shakespeare's Sonnet 29. reflection by Orli Cotel, national publicist, Sierra Club. Denise Levertov's The Avowal. reflection by Craig Dykstra, senior vice president, Lilly Endowment. Marge Piercy's The seven of pentacles. reflection by Jake B. Schrum, president, Southwestern University. Naomi Shihab Nye's The Art of Disappearing. reflection by Ted Falcon, rabbi and radio host. T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock [Excerpt]. reflection by Joseph L. Subbiondo, president, California Institute of Integral Studies. William Ayot's The Contract. reflection by Geoff Bellman, leadership consultant and author. Amelia Earhart's Courage. reflection by John Wimmer, program director, Lilly Endowment. William Stafford's Listening. reflection by David Brooks Andrews, journalist. Naomi Shihab Nye's Adios. reflection by Pamela Seigle, executive director, Center for Courage & Renewal Northeast. Sometimes It Aches. Ghalib's For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river. reflection by Ann Myers, former school superintendent. Mary Oliver's Spring Azures. reflection by Bonnie Allen, president, Center for Law & Renewal. William Blake's Auguries of Innocence [Excerpt]. reflection by James O'Leary, Catholic priest. Judy Brown's Trough. reflection by Linda Wolfe, small-business owner. Rumi's Childhood Friends [Excerpt]. reflection by Karen E. Adams, physician and medical residency program director. Langston Hughes's Mother to Son. reflection by Estrus Tucker, president and CEO, Liberation Community, Inc. Yehuda Amichai's End of Elul. reflection by Liz Lerman, artistic director, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Carol Prejean Zippert's When You Get Lost. reflection by Tom Beech, president and CEO, Fetzer Institute. Henry Nouwen's Work Around Your Abyss. reflection by John Marston, alternative schools administrator. Gabriela Mistral's Daybreak/Amanecer. reflection by Sandra P. Daley, pediatrician and medical school dean. Mark Nepo's Accepting This. reflection by Wayne Muller, minister and author. Pay Attention. David Wagoner's Lost. reflection by Peter Senge, founding chair, Society for Organizational Learning. Rainer Maria Rilke's I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough [Excerpt]. reflection by Bill White, pastor, Emmanuel Church. John O'Donohue's Fluent. reflection by Carla M. Dahl, psychotherapist and dean at Bethel Seminary. Tao Ching's #33. reflection by Kevin Fickenscher, executive vice president, Healthcare Transformation at Perot Systems. David Whyte's The Opening of Eyes. reflection by Hanna B. Sherman, physician and medical educator. William Ernest Henley's Invictus. reflection by David J. Garren, professor, U.S. Naval Academy. Nevin Compton Trammell's I'm Tired, I'm Whipped. reflection by Karen Lee Turner, pastoral musician. Yehuda Amichai's The Diameter of the Bomb. reflection by Howie Schaffer, public outreach director, Public Education Network. Rainer Maria Rilke's The Panther. reflection by David C. Leach, physician and executive director of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. William Stafford's With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach. reflection by Lee Rush, founder and executive director, justCommunity, Inc. Pablo Neruda's XXXI. reflection by Tony Deifell, founding board member, KaBOOM! William Butler Yeats's The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends. reflection by Jim McDermott, congressman, 7th district of Washington. Robert Frost's Mending Wall. reflection by Adam Bunting, high school administrator. The Real Bottom Line. Mary Oliver's The Ponds. reflection by James A. Autry, author and former Fortune 500 executive. Wallace Stevens's The Pleasures of Merely Circulating. reflection by Joan Blades, cofounder, MoveOn.org . Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken. reflection by James E. Rogers, president and CEO, Duke Energy Corporation. Charles Simic's Stone. reflection by Dean Conway, middle school teacher and coach. Wendell Berry's Sabbaths. reflection by Jay F. Smith, superintendent, United Methodist Church. W. H. Auden's After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics. reflection by Eric Walsh, physician and associate chairman of Family Medicine. Paul Mariani's The Peaceable Kingdom. reflection by Robert (Chip) Wood, elementary school principal. Stephen Spender's The Truly Great. reflection by Betty Sue Flowers, director, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. Rabindranath Tagore's The Grasp of Your Hand. reflection by L. J. Rittenhouse, president, andBEYOND Communications. Mary Oliver's What I Have Learned So Far. reflection by Paul Batalden, physician and medical educator. Billy Collins's The Night House. reflection by Sterling K. Speirn, president and CEO, W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Dare to Endure. Robert Browning's Andrea del Sarto [Excerpt]. reflection by Harry Barnes, former ambassador, Romania, India, and Chile. Ezzeddin Nasafi's Oh, my friend. reflection by Charles Gibbs, executive director, United Religions Initiative. Jack Gilbert's The Abnormal Is Not Courage. reflection by Jim Burke, author and high school teacher. Ibn Arabi's There was a time I would reject those. reflection by Eboo Patel, founder and executive director, Interfatih Youth Core. Winston O. Abbott's Let me remember, reflection by Annie Goeke de La Bouillerie, codirector, Earth Rights Institute, Rumi's What is This Fragrance [Excerpt], reflection by Jamal Rahman, Muslim Sufi minister at the Interfaith Community Church. Reb Nachman's The entire world is a very narrow bridge. reflection by Jaime Banks, communications researcher in public health. Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy [Excerpt]. reflection by Doug Tanner, founder, The Faith & Politics Institute. Kenneth Patchen's In Order to. reflection by Peter Pollard, public education director, Stop It Now! William Butler Yeats's Earth, Fire and Water [Excerpt]. reflection by Elizabeth A. Keene Reder, bereavement coordinator, Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Holly Near's The Rock Will Wear Away [Excerpt]. reflection by Tammy Baldwin, congresswoman, 2nd district of Wisconsin. Leading Together. Robert Creeley's The Warning. reflection by Dan Wieden, founder, Wieden + Kennedy ad agency. Langston Hughes's Let America Be America Again [Excerpt] and Countee Cullen's Yet Do I Marvel [Excerpt]. reflection by Linda K. Bowen, executive director, Institute for Community Peace. Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road [Excerpt]. reflection by Janet Tiebout Hanson, founder, 85 Broads; and chair, Milestone Capital. Louis MacNeice's Snow. reflection by Irene Martin, Episcopal priest and commercial fisher. Emily Dickinson's I dwell in Possibility. reflection by Eileen Quinn, senior communications officer, PATH. Wislawa Szymborska's A Note. reflection by Billy Shore, founder and executive director, Share Our Strength. Claudia Schmidt's Replenish. reflection by Molly D. Anderson, food systems scholar. Liz Rosenberg's In the End We Are All Light. reflection by Ted Lord, president and CEO, Humanities Washington. May Sarton's All Souls. reflection by Patricia E. de Jong, minister, First Congregational Church of Berkeley. Hafiz's How do I listen?. reflection by Pat Moore Harbour, founding director, Healing the Heart of Diversity. Emily Dickinson's Tell all the Truth but tell it slant. reflection by Thomas B. Coburn, president, Naropa University. Robert Service's The Spell of the Yukon [Excerpt]. reflection by Linda Chamberlain, epidemiologist and founding director, Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project. Martin Luther King Jr.'s The Drum Major Instinct [Excerpt]. reflection by Jim Kielsmeier, founder, president, and CEO, National Youth Leadership Council. Back At It. Thich Nhat Hanh's For Warmth. reflection by Henry Emmons, physician and author. Robert Frost's Directive. reflection by Tom Allen, congressman, 1st district of Maine. Judy Brown's Fire. reflection by Becky van der Bogert, former school superintendent. Daisy Zamora's Song of Hope. reflection by Kathleen Gille, former congressional aide. Lao Tzu's The uses of not. reflection by Peter Schneider, architect. Naomi Shihab Nye's Kindness. reflection by Lois Capps, congresswoman, 23rd distrrict of California. Robert Hayden's Those Winter Sundays. reflection by Brian Dunlap, high school administrator. William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey [Excerpt]. reflection by Carol Tecla Christ, president, Smith College. Wendell Berry's The Peace of Wild Things. reflection by Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, founder and president, AmericaSpeaks. William Stafford's Silver Star. reflection by Diana Chapman Walsh, former president, Wellesley College. Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses [Excerpt]. reflection by John C. Bogle, founder, The Vanguard Group. Leading with Fire: Using Poetry in Our Life and Work. Afterword by David Whyte. Gratitudes. Center for Courage & Renewal. The Editors. 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