En 5500: World Literature: Mysticism
Summer 2012
Karolyn Kinane, Ph.D.
Plymouth State University
Citations for Moodle readings
From Armstrong, Karen. Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience
(Penguin, 1985, 1987).
Wordsworth, from “The Prelude” book iv (125-6) book ii (215-17)
“Expostulation and Reply” (192-3)
“The Tables Turned” (194-5)
From The Paddhati of Sarngadhara, A Sanskrit Anthology (175)
Nuru’ddin ‘Abdu ‘R-Rahman Jami (175)
Czeslaw Milosz “Esse” (178)
Rabia “Two ways…” (195)
Moses ibn Ezra “The Sources of my Being” (196-8)
Faridu’ddin ‘Attar from “The Conference of the Birds” (199-200)
John of the Cross, “Stanzas concerning an ecstasy experienced through contemplation” (220-21)
“Stanzas of the soul that suffers with longing to see God” (231-2)
Baba Kuhi of Shiraz “In the market…” (234)
Jalalu’ddin Rumi “If there be any lover…” (237) “The song of the spheres…” (314)
Philip Larkin “Days” (252)
Elizabeth Jennings from “The Sonnets of Michaelangelo” (304)
Teresa of Avila (322-23)
From the Bhagavad Gita book XVIII trans Sir Edwin Arnold (321)
Al-Juniad “Now I have known…”(322)
Tennyson “In Memoriam of A.H.H.” (332)
Charles Causley “At Kfar Kana” (335)
From Mitchell, Stephen. The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry (Harper
Perennial, 1989)
Psalm 1 (5), 19 (6-7), 104 (8-10), 131 (11)
Lao Tzu (12-17)
Bhagavad Gita “Those who realize true wisdom…” (18-20)
Chuang-tzu “Cutting up an Ox” (21-23)
Seng-ts’an “The Mind of Absolute Trust” (26-28)
Li Po “You ask why…” (31) “The birds…” (32)
Symeon the New Theologian “We awaken in Christ’s body…” (38-9)
Su Tung-P’o “The roaring waterfall…” (41)
Wu Men “Ten thousand flowers…” (47)
Rumi “When grapes turn…” (53) “I have lived on the lip…” (55) “Out beyond ideas…” (59)
“Praise to the emptiness…” (63)
Mechthild of Magdeburg “A fish…” (64) “Effortlessly…” (65) “Of all that God…” (66)
Kabir “Between the conscious…” (70) “Inside this clay…” (71) “Are you looking…” (72)
Mirabai “Why Myra Can’t Go Back To Her Old House” (77) “Oh my friends…”(79)
George Herbert “Prayer” (81) “The Elixir” (82)
Gensei “A Poem Without Category” (86)
William Blake “To see a world…” (94)
Ryokan “First days of spring…” (96)
Walt Whitman from “Song of Myself” (108-112)
Rilke “As once the winged…” (133) “Call me to…” (135) “The Seventh Duino Elegy” (136)
From Happold, F. C. Mysticism: A Study and Anthology (Penguin, 1963, 1990).
Excerpts from Upanishads (144-48)
Excerpts from the Tao Te Ching (150-3)
Excerpts from “Buddhist Mysticism,” The Heart Sutra (162-63) The Perfect Knowledge, Beyond
Thought (163-4) On Trust in the Heart (164-169)
Excerpts from Eastern Orthodox Church, St Gregory Palamas, St Maximus the Confessor, St
Gregory of Sinai (223), St Isaac the Syrian, St Maximus the Confessor “There is double…”
(224), Nocephorus the Solitary, St John of the Ladder (225) Brianchaninov (226) St Simeon the
New Theologian (226-7).
Jami “The Divine Beauty and Love (251-2) “Whereby it behooves” (259)
Fazil “Beauty, wherever it is seen…” (253-4)
Rumi “As salt resolved…” (256)
Meister Eckhart from Tractate XIV (272-3), from Tractate II (274-5), from Sermon LXXXIII
(275-6)
St Teresa of Avila “On the Fourth Degree of Prayer” (351-4)
St John of the Cross “On the Two Nights” (358-9)
From Harvey, Andrew. The Essential Mystics: The Soul’s Journey into Truth (Castle Books,
1996)
Lao Tzu from The Tao Te Ching 1 (19), 16 (20), 25 (22)
Chuang Tzu “The True Man” (28-9)
Lui I Ming “The Height of Heaven” (31-2)
Loy Ching Yuen “To know Tao…” (32-3)
Excerpts from Upanishads “The City of Brahman” (37-8) “You Are That” (38-9) “The Spirit,
without moving…” (39)
Excerpts from The Bhagavad Gita “The Way of Love” (44-6)
Mahadeviyakka “Like a silkworm…” (47-8)
Ramprasad “Who can keep a blazing fire tied in a cotton cloth?” (48-9)
Jnaneshwar “The Nectar of Self-Awareness” (50-2)
Ramakrishna “Truth is One” (52-3), “I Have Raised Both My Hands” (57-8)
Aurobindo “All for Her” (59-61) “The New Body” (64-5)
The Buddha “The Illusory Nature of the World” (72) “The Worthy” (73)
From The Heart Sutra “The Heart of Perfect Understanding” (75-6)
From Vajradhvaha Sutra “The Bodhisattva’s Infinite Compassion” (76-7)
Paltrul Rinpoche “The Self-Liberated Mind” (81)
Saraha “Six Songs” (81-2)
Seng Ts’an “Believing in Mind” (82-3)
Huang Po “One Mind” (83-4)
Shutaku “Mind Set Free in the Dharma-Realm” (85)
Psalm 19 “The Heaven’s Declare the Glory of God” (90)
Psalm 23 “The Lord is my Shepherd” (91)
Pirke Avot “The Wisdom of the Rabbis” 6:2 (99-100) 1:17 (100-101) 2:4 (101) 4:22 (102)
Moses Cardoveros “Ein Sof and You” (103) “Water, Light, and Colors” (104-5)
Abraham Isaac Cook “The Song of Songs” (106)
From the Iggeret ha-Qodesh “Sexual Holiness” (106-7)
Plato “Socrates Praise of Madness” (119-20)
From “The Symposium,” “The Final Revelation” (122-4)
Plotinus, from “Enneads,” “This Universe” (129-30) “The Glory of this World” (132-3)
Marcus Aurelius from “Meditations” “Honor the Highest” (135)
Hadiths, An-Nanawi Collection “Prophetic Sayings” (143)
Rumi “Hurry to the Source of Life” (157) “Borrow the Beloved’s Eyes” (159-61) from “The
Rubaiyat” “Seeing my life…” (161-2) “What a Miracle” (163)
John 17:1-6; 20-25 “I in Them and Thou in Me” (178-9)
Gregory of Nyssa “Unity in Diversity” (187)
Dionysius the Areopagite “Trinity…” (187-8)
Saint Augustine “Entering into Joy” (188-9)
Francis of Assisi “In Your Midst” (192-3) “The Song of the Sun” (193-4)
Mechthild of Magdeburg “God Speaks to the Soul” (197)
Hadewich of Antwerp “All things…” (197-8)
Angela of Foligno “Behold my Humility” (198)
John Ruusbroec “The Soul as a Living Mirror” (198-200)
Teresa of Avila “I saw an angel” (205-6) “Mary and Martha Must Combine” (206) “You are
Christ’s Hands” (206)
Mother Teresa (214)
From Luminarium.org
George Herbert “Denial,”
John Donne “Sonnet XIV”
Henry Vaughn “Retreat” and “Morning Watch”
Selections from Julian of Norwich are taken from the 8th edition of the Norton Anthology of
English Literature edited by Greenblatt et. al. Volume 1.
From The Sun
Conrad, Ariane “Water Water: Ron Ortner’s Love Affiar with the Sea” (June 2012)
Stanley, Brian Jay “The Communion of Strangers” (April 2012)
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly “Happiness Revisited” (June 21012)