Sam M. Intrator is a professor at Smith College and founder of the Smith College Urban Education Initiative. A Kellogg National Leadership Fellow, he is the author/editor of five books, including Tuned In and Fired Up, Teaching with Fire, and Stories of the Courage to Teach.

Megan Scribner is an editor who also documents and evaluates programs for nonprofits. She is the coeditor of Teaching with Fire and coauthor with Parker J. Palmer of The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal, Tenth Anniversary Edition.

Foreword xv
Madeleine K. Albright

A Note to Our Readers xix
Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner

Introduction xxv
Parker J. Palmer

Called 1
Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses"
reflection by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., president, Waterkeeper Alliance 2

Emily Dickinson's "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" [Excerpt]
reflection by Nicole Gagnon, college student leader 6

Langston Hughes's "Madam's Calling Card"
reflection by Kyle Dodson, high school principal 8

William Stafford's "The Way It Is"
reflection by Michael Intrator, managing director, emissions trading company 10

William Carlos Williams's "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [Excerpt]
reflection by Peter S. Temes, president, ILO Institute 12

Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Irony of American History" [Excerpt]
reflection by Rosemary Jordano Shore, founder, ChildrenFirst 14

William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" [Excerpt]
reflection by Michael Singleton, director of coaching, Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association 16

Gary Snyders's "For the Children"
reflection by Betsy Taylor, founder, Center for the New American Dream 18

Theodore Roethke's "Cuttings (Later)"
reflection by Brian D. McLaren, author, speaker, evangelical activist 20

T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" [Excerpt]
reflection by Kathleen Kostelny, international consultant on children affected by war and violence 22

Marge Piercy's "To be of use"
reflection by Martha Bergmark, president, Mississippi Center for Justice 24

Eugene McCarthy's "Ares"
reflection by Mary Beth Yarrow, documentary film producer 26

Defining Moments 29

Adrienne Rich's "In Those Years"
reflection by Peter Karoff, founder and chairman, The Philanthropic Initiative 30

Wendell Berry's "A Vision"
reflection by Barbara Hummel, corporate and nonprofit facilitator 32

William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29"
reflection by Orli Cotel, national publicist, Sierra Club 34

Denise Levertov's "The Avowal"
reflection by Craig Dykstra, senior vice president, Lilly Endowment 36

Marge Piercy's "The seven of pentacles"
reflection by Jake B. Schrum, president, Southwestern University 38

Naomi Shihab Nye's "The Art of Disappearing"
reflection by Ted Falcon, rabbi and radio host 40

T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" [Excerpt]
reflection by Joseph L. Subbiondo, president, California Institute of Integral Studies 42

William Ayot's "The Contract"
reflection by Geoff Bellman, leadership consultant and author 44

Amelia Earhart's "Courage"
reflection by John Wimmer, program director, Lilly Endowment 46

William Stafford's "Listening"
reflection by David Brooks Andrews, journalist 48

Naomi Shihab Nye's "Adios"
reflection by Pamela Seigle, executive director, Center for Courage & Renewal Northeast 48

Sometimes It Aches 53

Ghalib's "For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river"
reflection by Ann Myers, former school superintendent 54

Mary Oliver's "Spring Azures"
reflection by Bonnie Allen, president, Center for Law & Renewal 56

William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" [Excerpt]
reflection by James O'Leary, Catholic priest 58

Judy Brown's "Trough"
reflection by Linda Wolfe, small-business owner 60

Rumi's "Childhood Friends" [Excerpt]
reflection by Karen E. Adams, physician and medical residency program director 62

Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son"
reflection by Estrus Tucker, president and CEO, Liberation Community, Inc. 64

Yehuda Amichai's "End of Elul"
reflection by Liz Lerman, artistic director, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange 66

Carol Prejean Zippert's "When You Get Lost"
reflection by Tom Beech, president and CEO, Fetzer Institute 68

Henry Nouwen's "Work Around Your Abyss"
reflection by John Marston, alternative schools administrator 70

Gabriela Mistral's "Daybreak/Amanecer"
reflection by Sandra P. Daley, pediatrician and medical school dean 72

Mark Nepo's "Accepting This"
reflection by Wayne Muller, minister and author 74

Pay Attention 77

David Wagoner's "Lost"
reflection by Peter Senge, founding chair, Society for Organizational Learning 78

Rainer Maria Rilke's "I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough" [Excerpt]
reflection by Bill White, pastor, Emmanuel Church 80

John O'Donohue's "Fluent"
reflection by Carla M. Dahl, psychotherapist and dean at Bethel Seminary 82

Tao Ching's "#33"
reflection by Kevin Fickenscher, executive vice president, Healthcare Transformation at Perot Systems 84

David Whyte's "The Opening of Eyes"
reflection by Hanna B. Sherman, physician and medical educator 86

William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"
reflection by David J. Garren, professor, U.S. Naval Academy 88

Nevin Compton Trammell's "I'm Tired, I'm Whipped"
reflection by Karen Lee Turner, pastoral musician 90

Yehuda Amichai's "The Diameter of the Bomb"
reflection by Howie Schaffer, public outreach director, Public Education Network 92

Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Panther"
reflection by David C. Leach, physician and executive director of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 94

William Stafford's "With Kit, Age 7, At the Beach"
reflection by Lee Rush, founder and executive director, justCommunity, Inc. 96

Pablo Neruda's "XXXI"
reflection by Tony Deifell, founding board member, KaBOOM! 98

William Butler Yeats's "The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends"
reflection by Jim McDermott, congressman, 7th district of Washington 100

Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
reflection by Adam Bunting, high school administrator 102

The Real Bottom Line 105

Mary Oliver's "The Ponds"
reflection by James A. Autry, author and former Fortune 500 executive 106

Wallace Stevens's "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating"
reflection by Joan Blades, cofounder, [...] 108

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
reflection by James E. Rogers, president and CEO, Duke Energy Corporation 110

Charles Simic's "Stone"
reflection by Dean Conway, middle school teacher and coach 112

Wendell Berry's "Sabbaths"
reflection by Jay F. Smith, superintendent, United Methodist Church 114

W. H. Auden's "After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics"
reflection by Eric Walsh, physician and associate chairman of Family Medicine 116

Paul Mariani's "The Peaceable Kingdom"
reflection by Robert (Chip) Wood, elementary school principal 118

Stephen Spender's "The Truly Great"
reflection by Betty Sue Flowers, director, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum 122

Rabindranath Tagore's "The Grasp of Your Hand"
reflection by L. J. Rittenhouse, president, andBEYOND Communications 124

Mary Oliver's "What I Have Learned So Far"
reflection by Paul Batalden, physician and medical educator 126

Billy Collins's "The Night House"
reflection by Sterling K. Speirn, president and CEO, W. K. Kellogg Foundation 128

Dare to Endure 131

Robert Browning's "Andrea del Sarto" [Excerpt]
reflection by Harry Barnes, former ambassador, Romania, India, and Chile 132

Ezzeddin Nasafi's "Oh, my friend"
reflection by Charles Gibbs, executive director, United Religions Initiative 134

Jack Gilbert's "The Abnormal Is Not Courage"
reflection by Jim Burke, author and high school teacher 136

Ibn Arabi's "There was a time I would reject those"
reflection by Eboo Patel, founder and executive director, Interfatih Youth Core. 138

Winston O. Abbott's "Let me remember"
reflection by Annie Goeke de La Bouillerie, codirector, Earth Rights Institute 140

Rumi's "What is This Fragrance" [Excerpt]
reflection by Jamal Rahman, Muslim Sufi minister at the Interfaith Community Church 142

Reb Nachman's "The entire world is a very narrow bridge"
reflection by Jaime Banks, communications researcher in public health 144

Seamus Heaney's "The Cure at Troy" [Excerpt]
reflection by Doug Tanner, founder, The Faith & Politics Institute 146

Kenneth Patchen's "In Order to"
reflection by Peter Pollard, public education director, Stop It Now!...