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30 “I live entirely” Barry Cooper. Beethoven. Oxford University Press: USA, 2008, p. 117.
31 “Submission, deepest” Solomon, Essays, Tagebuch number 1, p. 246.
32 “Like Henry James’s” Solomon, Beethoven, p. 161.
33 “its unique ability” ibid., p. 250.
34 “I often despair” ibid., p. 283.
35 “I learned yesterday” Edmund Morris. Beethoven: The Universal Composer. HarperCollins: New York, 2005, p. 179.
36 “God sees into” Solomon, Essays, p. 227.
37 “Perform thy duty” Solomon, Essays, Tagebuch number 64a, p. 269.
38 “Let not thy life” ibid., Tagebuch number 64b, p. 269.
39 “My motto is always” Alessandra Comini. The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking. Sunstone: Santa Fe, NM, 2008, p. 69.
40 “Late in the afternoon” Solomon, Beethoven, p. 381.
PART V: The Fourth Pillar: “Turn It Over to God”
1 “[The Self] is not born” Stoler Miller, Gita, 2.20, p. 32.
2 “Creatures are unmanifest” ibid., 2.28, p. 33. 207 “From broken memory” ibid., 2.63, p. 38.
3 “Our birth is but a sleep” William Wordsworth. “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” completed in 1804 and first published in Poems, In Two Volumes. Longman, Hurst, Reeves Publishers: London, 1807.
4 “This is the use” T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” III, The Four Quartets.
5 “Krishna, my delusion” Stoler Miller, Gita, 18.73, p. 153.
6 “Sometimes, because we were” Easwaran, Gita, 11.41, p. 155.
7 “Just as you have described” ibid., 11.3,4, p. 150. 209 “If a thousand suns” ibid., 11.13,14, p. 151.
ELEVEN
1 “To know when to act” Easwaran, Gita, 18.30, p. 208.
2 “I grew up like a” Catherine Clinton. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Back Bay Books: New York, 2004, p. 16.
3 “I had reasoned this” Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling: New York, 2008, Chapter Three, epigraph.
4 “flying over fields and towns” Clinton, Tubman, p. 38.
5 “MINTY, aged about” Clinton, Tubman, p. 34.
6 “stationmasters” See more about these roles in Clinton, Tubman, p. 66.
7 “I wouldn’t trust” Clinton, Tubman, p. 84.
8 “Harriet seems to have” Ann Petry. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad. Amistad: New York, 1995, p. 219.
9 “I never met” James A. McGowan. Station Master on the Underground Railroad. MacFarland and Co.: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2004, p. 100.
10 “When danger is near” M. J. Cosson. Harriet Tubman. Abdo Publishing: Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2007, p. 53.
11 “When God becomes our guide” Jean-Pierre de Caussade. Abandonment to Divine Providence. Translated and Introduced by John Beevers. Image Books: New York, 1975, p. 83.
12 “These actions are” author’s translation, Gita, 18.48.
13 “When we are led” de Caussade, Abandonment, p. 83.
14 “Now it is surely” ibid., p. 56.
15 “This work in our souls” ibid.
16 “By fulfilling the obligations” Easwaran, Gita, 18.47, p. 210.
17 “The old woman was” Milton G. Sennett. Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory and History. Duke University Press: Durham, NC, 2007, p. 150.
18 “I was conductor of” Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling Books: New York, 2008, Chapter Eight, epigraph.
19 “If you are tired” ibid., epigraph to the Introduction.
20 “The strangest thing” Clinton, Tubman, p. 95.
21 “Those who follow” Easwaran, Gita, 5.7, 8, p. 96.
22 “Each and every person” Clinton, Tubman, p. 221.
TWELVE
1 “Thus came into being” Ainslee Thomas Embree, Stephen Hay, William T. De Bary. Sources of Indian Tradition: Modern India and Pakistan. Columbia University Press: New York, 1988, p. 266.
2 “spiritual reference book” Eknath Easwaran. Gandhi the Man. Nilgiri Press: Novales, California, 1997, p. 8.
3 “Every moment of Gandhi’s life” Louis Fischer. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World. Signet Classics: New York, 2010, p. 12.
4 “haunted by the fear” Easwaran, Gandhi, p. 12.
5 “Nonviolence and cowardice go ill” ibid., p. 84.
6 “It is perfectly all right” The author imagines this line.
7 “The mantra becomes” M. K. Gandhi. Self Restraint v. Self-Indulgence. Navajivan Publishing, 1947, p. 64.
8 “Whenever the mind wanders” Easwaran, Gita, 6.26, p. 107.
9 “When meditation is mastered” ibid., 6.19, p. 106.
10 “Krishna, the mind is” ibid., 6.34, p. 108.
11 “Just keep practicing” ibid., 6.35, p. 108.
12 “It went straight” ibid., p. 35.
13 “What effect this reading” M. K. Gandhi. Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 1983, p. 233.
14 “When doubts haunt me” Sabapathy Kulandran. Grace in Christianity and Hinduism. Lutterworth Press: Cambridge, England, 2004, p. 139.
15 “inner relish, distinctly” Fischer, Gandhi, p. 11.
16 “His feet barely touched” ibid., p. 11.
17 “I had learnt” Richard L. Johnson, ed. Gandhi’s Experiments with Truth: Essential Writings By and About Mahatma Gandhi. Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland, 2005, p. 8.
18 “Without realizing it” Easwaran, Gandhi, p. 22.
19 “My study of English law” M. K. Gandhi. Autobiography, p. 233.
20 “He who devotes himself” M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violent Resistance Satyagraha. Dover Publications: Mineola, New York, 2001, p. 48.
21 “He will take only” M. K. Gandhi, Judith Margaret Brown. Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Oxford University Press: London, 2008, p. 77.
22 “Hope and fear are both” Mitchell, Tao, Saying 13.
23 “There comes a time” K. D. Gangrade. The Gandhian Approach to Development and Social Works. Concept Publishing: Columbia, Missouri, 2005, p. 18.
24 “Gandhi was the most bewildering” Easwaran, Gandhi, p. 65.
25 “the satyagrahi’s object” Jai Narain Sharma. Rediscovering Gandhi, Satyagraha Vol. 3. Concept Publishing: Columbia, Missouri, 2008, p. 91.
26 “Greater courage is required” Easwaran, Gandhi, p. 84.
27 “Have I that nonviolence” M. K. Gandhi, Louis Fischer. The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work and Ideas. Vintage: New York, 2002, p. 319.
28 “Death is the appointed end” Louis Fischer. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. Harper and Row: New York, 1983, p. 81.
29 “Select your purpose” Easwaran, Gandhi, p. 49.
30 “Do not resort to” ibid.
31 “Abandon all supports” Easwaran, Gita, 18.66, p. 212.
32 “Cast off your dependency” Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita. Nilgiri Press: Novales, CA, 2009, Kindle edition, Note #41, p. 275.
Epilogue
1 “Have you understood” Easwaran, Gita, 18.72, p. 212.
2 “You have dispelled” ibid., 18.73, p. 212.
3 “Free from self-will” ibid., 18.53-56, pp. 210-211.
4 “We cannot master” Thomas Merton. No Man is an Island. Harcourt, Brace: New York, 1978, p. 130.
5 “… the fulfillment of every” ibid., p. 137.
6 “… we cannot achieve greatness” ibid., p. 122.
7 “Whenever I remember” Easwaran, Gita, 18.76–77, p. 213.
8 “Wherever the divine Krishna” ibid., 18.78, p. 213.
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STEPHEN COPE has been for many years the Senior Scholar-in-Residence at The Kripalu Center in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. He is the author of a number of best-selling books, including Yoga and the Quest for the True Self and The Wisdom of Yoga.
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