The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling (55 page)

  
1
“O, for ten years” John Keats, “Sleep and Poetry,” first published 1816. All references to Keats’s poems are from H. W. Garrod, Ed.
The Poetical Works of John Keats
, second Oxford edition. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1958.

  
2
“The genius of poetry” Keats, in Stuart M. Sperry.
Keats the Poet
. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1994, p. 97.

  
3
“characteristic backward toss” Aileen Ward.
John Keats: The Making of a Poet
. Viking Press: New York, 1967, p. 64.

  
4
“a particularly dauntless expression” William Sharp.
Life and Letters of Joseph Severn
. University of Michigan Library: Ann Arbor, 1892, p. 20.

  
5
“He was not one” Ward,
Keats
, p. 44.

  
6
“Beauty that must die” John Keats, “Ode to Melancholy.”

  
7
“Poetry comes from” Ward,
Keats
, p. 16.

  
8
“discovered that he had” Geoffrey Treasure, ed.
Who’s Who in British History: Beginnings to 1901
. Routledge: London, 1998, p. 748.

  
9
“the only thing worthy” Walter Jackson Bate.
John Keats
. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 1963, p. 49.

10
“human beings are by nature” Duncan B. Forrester, James Ian Hamilton McDonald, Gian Tellini.
Encounter with God
. T. T. Clark International: NY, 2004, p. 14.

11
“I find that I cannot” Donald C. Goellnicht.
The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science
. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1984, p. 176.

12
“O, for only ten years” John Keats, “Sleep and Poetry.”

13
“I would sooner fail” Jack Stillinger.
John Keats: Complete Poems
. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1999, p. 432.

14
“There is no greater” Peter Gordon.
The Study of Education
. Routledge: London, 1980, p. 214.

15
“A clenched fist” Keats, in Ward,
Keats
, p. 131.

16
“The high idea I have” John Keats.
Complete Works: Letters. 1901
. Nabu Press: New York, 2011, p. 38.

17
“That which is creative” Kay R. Jamison.
Touched with Fire
. Free Press: New York, 1996, p. 114.

18
“Wherein lies” John Keats,
Endymion
.

19
“A fellowship with” ibid.

20
“Several things dovetailed” Andrew Motion.
Keats
. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2001, p. 217.

21
“annul the self” Keats, in Ward,
Keats
, p. 161.

22
“Let us open” Keats, in Donald Goellnicht.
The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science
. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1984, p. 110.

23
“A year or two earlier” Ward,
Keats
, p. 167.

24
“To bear all naked” John Keats, “Hyperion.”

25
“If Poetry comes not” Bate,
Keats
, p. 234.

26
“I think a little” John Keats, Robert Gittings, Jon Mee.
John Keats: Selected Letters
. Oxford University Press: London, 2002, p. 54.

27
“not for Fame and Laurel” Gittings,
Keats
, p. 224.

28
“Being a poet” Ward,
Keats
, p. 224.

29
“We often spoke” personal letter to the author from John Stevenson.

30
“I got to see Mark” ibid.

31
“to bear all naked truths” Keats, “Hyperion.”

32
“the supreme experience” Gerald B. Kauvar.
The Other Poetry of Keats
. Associated University Press: Cranbury, New Jersey, 1969, p. 115.

33
“Do you not see” Keats, in Motion,
Keats
, p. 377.

34
“For these few weeks” Ward,
Keats
, p. 279.

35
“I look upon fine” Meg Harris Williams.
Inspiration in Milton and Keats
. Palgrave MacMillan, London, 1982, p. 165.

36
“Verse that comes not” Keats, in Ward,
Keats
, p. 320.

37
“a poem should ride” Robert Frost, in Parini,
Frost
, p. 42.

38
“I know the colour” Keats, in Ward,
Keats
, p. 347.

39
“many a verse” Keats in Stuart M. Sperry.
Keats the Poet
. Princeton University Press; Princeton, NJ, 1993, p. 79.

  
1
“If you stay in the center” Mitchell,
Tao
, Saying 33.

  
2
“He made it clear” Marion Woodman.
Bone: A Journal of Wisdom, Strength and Healing
. Penguin Putnam: New York, 2000, p. 15.

  
3
“When [God] is moving you” ibid., p. 11.

  
4
“I persevered” ibid., p. xi.

  
5
“Destiny is recognizing” ibid., p. xvi.

  
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“These are strange days” ibid., p. 5.

  
7
“In his eighties” Marion Woodman.
Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman
. Inner City Books: Toronto, 1993, p. 108.

  
8
“The shadow is anything” Marion Woodman.
Dreams: Language of the Soul
. Sounds True Recordings: Boulder, CO, 1991, cassette recording no. A131.

  
9
“The shadow may carry” Woodman,
Dreams
.

10
“Once we know what” ibid.

11
“I put rows of dreams” Marion Woodman with Jill Mellick.
Coming Home to Myself: Daily Reflections for a Woman’s Body and Soul
. Conari Press: Berkeley, 1998, p. 3.

12
“What a relief” Woodman,
Conscious Femininity
, p. 51.

13
“My dark images are” Woodman,
Bone
, p. 52.

14
“I know that this death” ibid., p. 37.

15
“In our dreams we” Marion Woodman.
Rolling Away the Stone
. Sounds True Recordings: Boulder, CO, 1989.

16
“Death is inevitable” Easwaran,
Gita, 2.28
, p. 64.

17
“I decided if I” Woodman,
Bone
, p. 66.

18
“My body has always” ibid., p. 105.

19
“The invitation into” This section is paraphrased from Woodman’s description of the stages of initiation in the Preface to
Coming Home
, p. 18.

20
“We usually need” Woodman,
Coming Home
, p. 18.

21
“We learn to live” Marion Woodman.
The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation
. Inner City: Toronto, 1997, p. 51.

22
“Holding an inner” Woodman,
Coming Home
, p. 188.

23
“Died into life” Woodman,
Bone
, p. xv.

24
From “Sailing to Byzantium,” by William Butler Yeats, first published 1928 in
The Tower
. Used by permission.

25
“awakens to the light” Easwaran,
Gita
, 2.69, p. 68.

26
“Cancer has made me” Woodman,
Bone
, p. xvi.

27
“Through failures” ibid., p. 296.

28
“Oh, Marion” This section adapted and quoted from Woodman,
Bone
, p. 240.

  
1
“Are you too deeply” Brenda Wineapple.
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
. Anchor: New York, 2009, p. 4.

  
2
“Before my departure” Maynard Solomon.
Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2004, p. 3.

  
3
“Blessed is the man” A quotation from entry number “64a” from Beethoven’s
Tagebuch
, translated in its entirety in Maynard Solomon.
Beethoven Essays
. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1998, p. 268.

  
4
“Beethoven turned all of his defeats” Maynard Solomon.
Beethoven
. Schirmer Trade Books: New York, 2001, p. 161.

  
5
“saw the little Louis” Solomon.
Beethoven
. p. 22.

  
6
“[The] Beethoven children” ibid., p. 24.

  
7
“play for mortal stakes” Robert Frost. “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” from
A Further Range
. Henry Holt: New York, 1936.

  
8
“From my earliest childhood” Leon Plantinga.
Beethoven’s Concertos
. W. W. Norton: New York, 1999, p. 322.

  
9
“Since I was a child” Maynard Solomon.
Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination
. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2003, p. 93.

10
“There is hardly any” Solomon,
Beethoven
, p. 53.

11
“I have not the slightest” Stephen Rumph.
Beethoven After Napoleon
. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1994, p. 97.

12
“In whatever company” Elliot Forbes, ed.
Thayer’s Life of Beethoven, Vol I.
, Revised. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1967, p. 185.

13
“bested by that young” Solomon,
Beethoven
, p. 79.

14
“[He] was short of stature” ibid., p. 105.

15
“His mouth was small” ibid.

16
“always merry, mischievous” ibid., p. 106.

17
“Live only in your art” Solomon,
Essays, Tagebuch
entry 88, p. 274.

18
“Everything that is called life” Solomon,
Essays, Tagebuch
entry 40, p. 258.

19
His daily schedule is instructive. This section is drawn largely from Solomon’s descriptions of Beethoven’s interesting schedule. See Solomon,
Beethoven
, pp. 107–108 for more about Beethoven’s daily life.

20
“I always have a notebook” Solomon,
Beethoven
, p. 107.

21
“thematic condensation; more” ibid., p. 141.

22
“… my ears continue to” David Wyn-Jones.
The Life of Beethoven
. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 1998, p. 58.

23
“It was only my art” Forbes,
Thayer
, p. 305.

24
“With joy I hasten” Michael Black.
Crossing Out the Emperor
. Chipmunkapublishing: London, 2011, p. 55.

25
“I will take Fate” J. W. N. Sullivan.
Beethoven: His Spiritual Development
. Vintage Books: New York, 1960, p. 72.

26
“he found that his genius” Sullivan,
Beethoven
, p. 73.

27
“In the middle of winter” Albert Camus. “Return to Tipasa,”
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
. Random House: New York, 1961, p. 144.

28
“Never again was” Sullivan,
Beethoven
, p. 77.

29
“In the same way” ibid.

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.

  
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.

  
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“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.