Courage & Liberty - an offering of words from Leonard Cohen, Walt Whitman, René Char, Alexandra Smyth, Charlie Mehrhoff - read by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff.

Leonard Cohen's words regarding Ariel Sharon were read from Matti Friedman's book Who By Fire. Leonard's words on courage can be found in Leonard's book entitled The Flame (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

The words of René Char - from Leaves of Hypnos, translated by Cid Corman.

REGARDING FEAR: Words from Taittiriya Upanishad, Thich Nhat Hanh, Khalil Gibran, Sabine Miller, Hafiz, Idit Miriam Codish, M.K. Gandhi, Clint Frakes, Maria Beradi, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Frank Herbert, H.F. Noyes, White Eagle - read by host Charlie Mehrhoff. 

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M.K. Gandhi's letters to Adolph Hitler, Jiddu Krishnamurti - on how to overcome nationalism. A brief message by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Poems of Rumi and Kabir translated by Daniel Ladinsky. - Reading by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff.

Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West - translated by Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin, Compass). 

J. Krishnamurti The First and Last Freedom (Harper One). 

Readings from Rabindranah Tagore's GITANJALI (Song Offerings), Attar's THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS, Jerry Smaldone, Sabine Miller, Psalm 10, Rav Kook - read by host Charlie Mehrhoff. 

The Conference of the Birds - Attar, translated by Sholeh Wolpé (Norton).

The Torah of Tomorrow - Rav Kook, translated by Rachel Tova Ebner (Mosaica). https://mosaicapress.com/product/the-torah-of-tomorrow/?v=0b3b97fa6688

The Night Before Creation, or, Midnight in Medzhybizh - by Idit Miriam Codish - takes listeners along on her recent incredible journey to the Ba'al Shem Tov's Tzion, gravesite, in the Ukraine. 

Idit's prose is simultaneously wild and grounded. There is an ecstatic transference, a down-to-earth holiness, that somehow occurs while listening to Idit's story.

Featuring the words of Rabindranath Tagore, Arthur Rimbaud, Dina Awwad-Srour, Charles Reznikoff, Charlie Mehrhoff. 

The centerpiece of this episode is a work of non-fiction entitled The Museum of Gush Etzion  composed by Dina Awwad-Srour - originally published online in FIKRA : https://fikra-magazine.com/article/183

Circles & Such - C. Mehrhoff reads Black Elk, Rilke, A.C. Koch, Mary Oliver, Dogen, Lew Welch, Scarecrow. 

Words regarding circles, then going beyond - yet always within. 

Featuring the poetry of Hanna Yerushalmi, Aura Chaya Gispan, Rav Kook & Charles Reznikoff - along with a real life telling by Idit Miriam Codish. 

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The Rich Man - and - The Mad Dancers - read by Charlie Mehrhoff. 

Words from The Golden Mountain first published in 1932, and republished again, decades later, under the title Classic Hassidic Tales - translated and compiled from Hebrew, Yiddish and German sources - by Meyer Levin. 

Poetry of Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabia, Sabine Miller, Maria Berardi, Jerry Smaldone, Charlie Mehrhoff.

Thich Nhat Hanh - Call Me by My True Names. 

Rabia - Love Poems from God - translated & compiled by Daniel Ladinsky.

Circumference of Mercy - Sabine Miller

Casandra Gifts, poems by Maria Berardi. https://maria-berardi.com/links-to-publications/

Fatto a Mano - Jerry Smaldone

Words to Light Eternity - Charlie Mehrhoff