Here are quick bios of everyone quoted in Through God’s Eyes. It is a work in progress. Some people have proven difficult or impossible for me to identify, so any corrections or new information would be greatly appreciated. Let me emphasize that: I want to make this listing as perfect as possible, so your suggestions are expected and welcomed. Click here to e-mail me directly.
Abdu’l-Bahá‘ (1844-1921). Son of Bahá’u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í faith. Born Abbas Effendi in Tehran, Iran, he took the name Abdu’l-Bahá’, the “servant of Baha.” His father appointed him the one authorized interpreter of the Bahá’í teachings and as head of the faith after his own passing.
Ackerman, Diane (1948- ). U.S. author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work, A Natural History of the Senses.
A Course in Miracles. A self-study metaphysical curriculum that promotes forgiveness as the road to inner peace and the remembrance of the unconditional love of God. No author is listed for the book, but Helen Schucman wrote it with the help of William Thetford, based on what she called an “inner voice” that she identified as Jesus.
Adams, Douglas (1952-2001). English writer and dramatist best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719). English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician.
Adi Da Samraj (1939-2008). Born Franklin Albert Jones in Queens, New York, Adi Da was a spiritual teacher, writer and artist, and the founder of a new religious movement known as Adidam. Adi Da initially became known in the spiritual counterculture of the 1970s for his books and public talks, and for the activities of his religious community. His philosophy was essentially similar to many eastern religions which see spiritual enlightenment as the ultimate priority of human life.
Adler, Felix (1851-1933). German-born Jewish professor of political and social ethics, lecturer, religious leader, and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. He is considered one of the main influences on modern Humanistic Judaism.
Aeschylus (c. 525 -c. 426 BC). Often described as the “Father of Tragedy,” Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians (Sophocles and Euripides) whose plays can still be read or performed.
Aguilar, Grace (1816-1847). English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion, poet, historical romance writer, religious reformer, educator, social historian, theologian, and liturgist.
Ajahn (or Achaan) Chah (1918-1992). Buddhist monk from Thailand.
Akhenaton (c. 1380 BC -c. 1334 BC). Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1380-1362 BC), the father and predecessor of Tutankamen (aka King Tut), Akhenaton radically revised the Egyptian religious world, abandoning its traditional polytheism by instituting a unique form of monotheism.
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888). American novelist best known as author of the 1868 novel Little Women, which is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts. The novel is loosely based on Alcott’s childhood experiences with her three sisters.
Alda, Alan (1936- ). American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H.
Alden, Robert (1836-1911). Reverend Edwin Hyde Alden, known as Robert Alden, is a real person as well as a character in the Little House on the Prairie series of books and the television series based on it. He was the minister of the Congregational Church in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, with Charles and Caroline Ingalls, parents of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, being among the first baptized members.
Alfassa, Mirra (The Mother) (1978-1973). Born in Paris to a Turkish Jewish father and an Egyptian Jewish mother, Mirra Alfassa was the spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo. She came to Sri Aurobindo’s retreat in Pondicherry, India, in 1914. After 1926, when Sri Aurobindo retired into seclusion, she founded his ashram (Sri Aurobindo Ashram), with a handful of disciples living around the Master. She became the leader of the community, a position she held until her death. Sri Aurobindo had considered her an incarnation of the Mother Divine and called her by that name: the Mother.
Allen, James (1864-1912). British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, was published in 1903.
Allingham, Margery (1904-1966). English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.
Amiel, Henri Frédéric (1821-1891). Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic. He is known for the book, the Journal Intime, (“Private Journal”), a masterwork of self-analysis by a man struggling for values against the skepticism of the age
Amos, Wally “Famous” (1936- ). U.S. entrepreneur and author best known for founding the “Famous Amos” chocolate-chip cookie brand. An Air Force veteran who worked as a talent agent for the William Morris Agency, Amos would send home-baked chocolate-chip cookies to celebrities, hoping to entice them to let him represent them. Amos later cofounded Uncle Wally’s muffins.
Amritanandamayi Devi, Sri Mata (1953- ). Known simply as Amma (“Mother”) and “The Hugging Saint,” Indian-born Amritanandamayi is a Hindu spiritual leader and guru. She is globally respected for her humanitarian activities and is a revered as a saint by her followers.
Anandamayi Ma (1896-1982). Born Nirmala Sundari in what is now Bangladesh, Anandamayi Ma was a spiritual leader known for living in a near-perpetual state of ecstasy. The name Anandamayi, which Paramahansa Yogananda translated as “joy-permeated,” was bestowed upon her by her devotees in the 1920s to describe what they saw as her habitual state of divine joy and bliss.
Anandamurti, Shrii Shrii (1921-1990). Indian philosopher, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer, and linguist. Born Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, early disciples called him Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, Sanskrit for “bliss personified.” Ananda Marga, the organization he founded in India in 1955, advocates a practical philosophy for personal development, social service, and the all-around transformation of society. His system of spiritual practice has been described as a practical synthesis of Vedic and Tantric philosophies.
Andrews, Andy (1959- ). U.S. corporate speaker and author of self-help books, Andrews is best known for his 2002 best-seller, The Traveler’s Gift. Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success.He has written more than twenty books and sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.
Angelou, Maya (1928- ). U.S. author, poet, teacher, speaker, and activist who is perhaps best known for her series of six autobiographies, The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing, tells of her life up to the age of seventeen. She is widely respected as a spokesperson for African-American people, especially women, and her works have been considered a defense of African-American culture. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem, “On the Pulse of Morning,” at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton.
Ann-Margret (1941- ). Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and Tommy (1975). She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards.
Anouilh, Jean (1910-1987). French dramatist best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles’ classical drama. Much of Anouilh’s work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
Anthony, Dr. Robert. Living U.S. author and psychotherapist. In Anthony’s own words from his Facebook page: I’ve spent the last thirty years unraveling the mysteries of “success” and how the mind holds the ultimate key to peak personal performance in all areas. In addition to being a Personal Performance Trainer, I am a licensed Psychotherapist, Hypnotist and bestselling author. I have authored over fifteen books, which have been published in twenty-two countries, including Beyond Positive Thinking and The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence.
Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274). Italian Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of Thomism. His influence on Western thought is considerable; much of modern philosophy was conceived in development or refutation of his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.
Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph (1821-1870). French Army officer and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.
Aristides, Marcianus (unknown). Second-century Greek Christian author who is primarily known as the author of the Apology of Aristides. St. Aristides delivered the Apology around the year 125. His feast day is August 31 in Roman Catholicism.
Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC ). Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato’s teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. A prodigious researcher and writer, Aristotle left a great body of work, perhaps numbering as many as two-hundred treatises, from which approximately thirty-one survive. His extant writings span a wide range of disciplines, from logic, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, through ethics, political theory, aesthetics and rhetoric, and into such primarily non-philosophical fields as empirical biology, where he excelled at detailed plant and animal observation and taxonomy.
Ash, Mary Kay (1918-2001). U.S. businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. At the time of her death, Mary Kay Cosmetics had over eight hundred thousand representatives in thirty-seven countries, with total annual retail sales over $2 billion. She authored three books, all of which became bestsellers.
Ashe, Arthur (1943-1953). U.S. professional tennis player. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles and achieved a World No. 1 ranking. An Africa- American, Ashe was the first black player ever selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man to ever win the singles title at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Australian Open. He is also remembered for his efforts to further social causes. He contracted HIV during blood transfusions he received during his second heart surgery, which ultimately led to his death. In the last year of his life, Ashe did much to call attention to AIDS sufferers worldwide.
Ashford, Jan. Current CEO of Communication Rights Australia, which helps people with communication difficulties access their rights through information and advocacy. Ashford, who has worked in the disability sector for more than twenty-five years, has been a strong advocate for the rights of people who have little or no speech. She has a background in social work, family counseling, and quality management, and has authored many publications in this area.
Ashtavakra Gita
Asquith, Margot
Auden, W. H.
Aughey, Rev. John Hill (1828-1911). Presbyterian minister living in Mississippi at the outbreak of the Civil War. Refusing to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederate States or to respond to conscript notices, he was hunted as a fugitive. Imprisoned twice for his anti-secession, pro-Union beliefs, he escaped both times. He recounted his experiences in the book, Tupelo.
Augustine, Saint
Aurelius, Marcus (121-180). Roman Emperor from 161-180.
Baba, Meher
Babcock, Maltbie D.
Bach, Richard (1936- ). U.S. author known for books such as Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, and The Bridge Across Forever. He is noted for his love of flying and for his books related to air flight and flying in a metaphorical context.
Bacon, Francis
Bailyn, Evan (1981- ). U.S. expert on search engine optimization. Bailyn has built and sold five online businesses, including one of the largest websites for children.
Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-76). Russian political theorist.
Baldwin, Christina. Living U.S. author best known for her book, Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story. Through her educational company, PeerSpirit, Inc., Baldwin speaks in large conferences to excite story activism, consults with organizations to build foundational and strategic stories, offers in-depth writing seminars, and co-leads wilderness immersion experiences.
Baldwin, James
Balzac, Honoré de
Barclay, William
Barr, Amelia
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) (1860-1937). Scottish novelist and playwright best known as the creator of Peter Pan, a character he introduced in the 1902 novel, The Little White Bird.
Barry, Lynda (1956- ). U.S. cartoonist and author best known for her weekly comic strip, Ernie Pook’s Comeek.
Barton, Bruce
Baruch, Bernard
Baxter, J. Sidlow
Bearden, Romare
Beattie, Melody
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beck, Charlotte Joko
Beecher, Henry Ward
Belles, Krista. I have absolutely no idea who this is.
Bender, Betty (1948- ). U.S. motivational speaker, consultant, and trainer in communications and management development.
Benedict, Mellen-Thomas
Bennett, Arnold
Benson, Arthur Christopher
Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint
Bhagavad Gita
Bianco, Frank
Bierce, Ambrose
Billings, Josh
Bistami, Bayazid al- (804-c. 874). Persian Sufi born in Bastam, Iran.
Blake, William
Blanchard, Ken
Bloch, Alice
Bloom, Amy
Blyth, Reginald Horace
Bodhidharma
Boese, Paul
Boethius
Bonvoisin, Ariane de
Boone, Louis Eugene
Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986), Argentinian poet, essayist, and short-story writer, whose tales of fantasy and dreamworlds are classics of 20th-century world literature.
Borland, Hal
Bounds, E. M.
Bowles, Paul
Boyle, Robert
Bradbury, Ray
Braden, Gregg
Bradshaw, John
Braithwaite, William Charles
Branden, Nathaniel
Brault, Robert (1938- ). U.S. computer software developer and freelance writer.
Brecht, Bertolt
Brennan, Barbara Ann
Brilliant, Ashleigh (1933- ). British-born full-time epigrammatist now living in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of many books, including I May Not Be Totally Perfect, But Parts of Me Are Excellent and All I Want Is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word, and Unlimited Power.
Brinkley, Dannion
Brinkley, David
Bronner, Jr., Nathaniel
Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915). English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially The Soldier.
Brooke, Rev. Stopford A.
Brooks, Phillips
Brother Lawrence (c. 1614-11691). French mystic Nicholas Herman, aka Brother Lawrence, was converted to a powerful love of God at age eighteen by a humble observation of a barren tree in the depth of winter. In the six years between his revelation and his joining the Discalced Carmelite Priory in Paris, he fought in the Thirty Years’ War and later served as a valet. He entered the priory in Paris as a lay brother, not having the education necessary to become a cleric, and took the religious name, “Lawrence of the Resurrection.” He spent almost all of the rest of his life within the walls of the priory, working in the kitchen for most of that time and as a repairer of sandals in his later years. He is best known for the book, The Practice of the Presence of God, which was compiled after his death from several pages of his own writing and four interviews with the envoy of Cardinal de Noailles.
Brothers, Dr. Joyce
Brotherton, J.
Brown, Jr., H. Jackson
Brown, Rita Mae
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Ophelia G.
Brunton, Paul
Bryan, William Jennings
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878). U.S. romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
Buber, Martin
Buddha
Buechner, Frederick
Bujold, Lois McMaster
Bunyan, John
Burgess, Gelett
Burke, Edmund
Burns, Robert
Burroughs, John
Buscaglia, Leo
Bussy-Rabutin, Roger de
Butterworth, Eric
Byrne, Robert
Byron, Lord
Caesar, Julius
Calvin, John
Campbell, Joseph
Camus, Albert
Carretto, Carlo
Carey, Sandra. I have absolutely no idea who this is.
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie, Dale
Carpenter, Liz (1920-2010). U.S. writer, feminist, reporter, media advisor, speechwriter, political humorist, and public relations expert. She was the author of Getting Better All the Time and Unplanned Parenthood: Confessions of a Seventy-Something Surrogate Mother. Carpenter was a speechwriter for vice president Lyndon B. Johnson, the press secretary and chief of staff for First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, and founder of the Texas Women’s Political Caucus.
Carrel, Alexis
Carrey, Jim
Castaneda, Carlos
Cather, Willa (1873-1947). U.S. author best known for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!.
Saint Catherine of Siena
Caussade, Jean-Pierre de
Cayce, Edgar
Chambers, Oswald
Chanel, Gabrille “Coco”
Channing, William Henry
Chapin, Edwin Hubbell
Charlton, Hilda
Chase, Stuart
Chaudhuri , Haridas (1913-1975). Bengali integral philosopher who founded the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1951.
Chesterfield, Philip Lord
Chesterton, G. K.
Child, Lydia M.
Chilon (6th century BC). A native of Sparta who became one of the Ephori, or chief magistrates of the state, and a poet who wrote a great number of elegiac verses. He was known for his laconic wit, and for his belief in prudence, self-restraint, and careful judgment. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece, the title given by ancient Greek tradition to seven early 6th century BC philosophers, statesmen and legislators who were renowned in the following centuries for their wisdom.
Chinmoy, Sri
Chödrön, Pema
Chopin, Frédéric
Chopra, Deepak
Chopra, Gautama
Christophers, The
Chuang Tzu
Churchill, Winston
Cicero
Clark, Dan
Clark, Frank A.
Cleathen, Al
Coates, Florence Earle
Cohen, Alan
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Colton, Charles Caleb
Confucius
Connolly, Cyril
Conrad, Joseph
Cooley, Charles Horton
Cooley, Mason
Corona, Vicki. Living U.S. dance instructor, author, and owner of Dance Fantasy Cultural Arts Center and Dance Fantasy Productions in North Hollywood, California. Corona is a seasoned performer, choreographer, costumer, dance instructor, crafter, ethno-historian, publisher, booking agent, and a former U.S. Army Race Relations Expert. She has lived in many countries, traveled the planet extensively, and performed world dances professionally since the age of six.
Coué, Émile
Cousins, Norman
Covey, Stephen R.
Cowper, William
Craik, Dinah Maria
Crazy Horse
Cromwell, Oliver
Crowley, Mary C.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Culbertson, William
Cummings, E. E.
Cuomo, Mario
Dalai Lama, His Holiness the 14th
Darwin, Charles
Davis, Kenneth S.
Daya Mata, Sri
De Angelis, Barbara
Delano, Roger
de Mille, Agnes
Deng Ming-Dao
Descartes, René
Devi, Indra
DeVille, Alice. Living U.S. astrologer, workshop presenter, and writer with expertise in romance and relationship dynamics.
DeVries, Peter
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily
Didion, Joan
Dillard, Annie
Dilley, Ingrid
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dixon, Jack
Donne, John (1572-1631). English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest. Donne is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets.
Dooley, Mike
Dossey, Dr. Larry
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Douglas, Norman
Douglas, William O.
Douglass, Frederick
Downs, Hugh
Drucker, Peter
Drummond, Henry (1851-1897). Scottish evangelist, writer, and lecturer. He is best known for his book, The Greatest Thing in the World, which encourages people to follow God’s two great commandments: to love God and to love each other.
Du Bos, Charles (1882-1939). French essayist and critic of French and English literature.
Dunham, Katherine
Dyer, Wayne
Earhart, Amelia
Easwaran, Eknath
Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von
Eckhart, Meister
Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley (1882-1944). English astrophysicist. The Eddington Limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
Edgeworth, Maria
Edison, Thomas
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955). German-born theoretical physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized physics.
Elimelech, Rabbi
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
Elliot, Jim
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-82). U.S. poet, philosopher, essayist, and lecturer. Emerson led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, expressing the philosophy of the movement in his 1836 essay, Nature.
Enright, Robert. Living U.S. psychologist and professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses in moral development with an emphasis on the psychology of forgiveness. The author of Forgiveness Is a Choice: A Step-by-Step Process for Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope, Enright is a popular speaker on the moral development of forgiveness, with his work appearing in such outlets as Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and ABC’s 20/20. Enright’s National Conference on Forgiveness was the first of its kind on any university campus. He considers his recently published book, The Forgiving Life, to be his strongest work to date. His website, InternationalForgiveness.com, includes up-to-date discussions about forgiveness across the globe.
Ephron, Nora
Epictetus (c. 55–c. 135). Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in The Discourses.
Epicurus
Erhard, Werner
Essenes, The
Faber, Frederick William
Fairchilde, Lily
Fénelon, François
Fen-Yang
Ferguson, Marilyn
Fielding, Henry
Firebaugh, Doug
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Flanigan, Beverly
Fleming, Anne Taylor
Flint, Cort R.
Foch, Ferdinand
Follett, Mary Parker
Forbes, Malcolm
Ford, Leighton
Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft
Fox, Emmet
Francis of Assisi, Saint
Frank, Anne
Frankl, Viktor
Franklin, Benjamin
Freedman, Ruth P.
Fried, Erich
Friedman, Dr. Martha
Fromm, Erich
Frost, Robert
Fuller, Buckminster
Fuller, Thomas
Fry, Christopher
Gad, The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
Gaertner, Johannes A.
Galer, Don
Galilei, Galileo
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gardner, John W.
Gauguin, Paul
Gautier, Théophile
Gawain, Shakti
Gegax, Tom
Ghosananda, Maha
Gibran, Kahlil
Gide, André
Gilchrist, Ellen
Glidewell, Jan (1944- ). U.S. writer. Twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Glidewell, a longtime columnist for the St. Petersburg Times, retired in 2003 after thirty-seven years in the newspaper business. Known for his offbeat wit and liberal views, Glidewell describes himself thusly: “High school dropout, nudist, Buddhist, Deadhead. Former marine (recovered).”
Gissing, George
Gladwell, Malcolm
Glasow, Arnold H. (1905-1998). U.S. author and humorist. A regular contributor to the humor sections of Reader’s Digest, he published his first book, Glasow’s Gloombusters, at the age of ninety-two.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Golas, Thaddeus
Goldsmith, Joel
Goldstein, Dr. Kurt
Gordon, Charles
Gracian, Baltasar
Graham, Sheila
Grayson, David
Greene, Vivian
Greer, Germaine
Grenfell, Wilfred
Grieco, Mary Hayes
Griggs, Edward H.
Grimes, Martha
Gross, Helga Bergold
Guibert, Joseph de
Guillemets, Terri (1973- ). U.S. “quotation anthologist” who founded The Quote Garden website in 1998. In her own words: With a personal, heartfelt approach she shares inspiration and love of words with the world, “spreading quotatious joy” as she calls it. A curmudgeonesque optimist whose inner child will never grow up, she also enjoys nature, photography, cloudgazing, and family.
Guiterman, Arthur
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovich
Guthrie, Arlo
Guyton, Melissa (1985-). Surgical nurse in Columbus, Georgia.
Gyanamata, Sri
Hafiz
Hallesby, Ole
Hahn, Duane Alan
Hamilton, Edith
Hammarskjöld, Dag
Hanh, Thich Nhat
Hanshan Deqing (1546–1623). A leading Buddhist monk of Ming Dynasty China who widely propagated the teachings of Chán and Pure Land Buddhism.
Hare, Julius Charles
Harris, Bill (1951- ). President and Director of Beaverton, Oregon-based Centerpointe Research Institute, which offers programs for personal growth, mind development, and relaxation. A student of ancient and modern research into the nature of the mind, Harris has been involved in personal development for over thirty-five years as a seeker, teacher, public speaker, author, musician, composer, therapist, workshop leader, and business owner.
Hart, Ken
Harwig, Kathryn
Havel, Vaclav
Hawkins, Dr. David R.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hay, Louise
Hazlitt, William
Hebbel, Friedrich
Hedge, Dr. H. F. The only clue I have to his identity is that an 1888 book identified him as a doctor
Hellman, Lillian
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry, Matthew
Henry, Philip
Herbert, George
Heschel, Rabbi Abraham J.
Hesse, Hermann
Hickok, Eliza M.
Hicks, Esther
High Eagle
HIghlander: The Series
Hill, Napoleon
Hillel, Rabbi
Hinckley, Gordon B.
Hodgkin, Thomas
Hoelscher, Russ von
Hoffer, Eric
Holland, Isabelle
Holland, Josiah Gilbert
Holmes, Ernest
Holmes, John Andrew
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Holton, Gerald
Horace
Houston, Charles
Howard, Vernon
Howe, Edgar Watson
Hubbard, Elbert
Hughes, Charles Evans
Hughes, Langston
Hugo, Victor (1802-85), French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist, and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. Hugo’s best known works are the novels Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Miserables (1862).
Hui Neng
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Hunt, Leigh
Huntley, Rev. Karyl
Huxley, Aldous
Ibsen, Henrik
I Ching
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint
Ingersoll, Robert G.
Isocrates
Jaffe, Dr. Ibrahim
James, John Angell
James, P. D.
James, William (1842-1910). Often called “the father of American psychology,” James was a pioneering psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism.
Jamison, Kaleel
Jampolsky, Gerald
Jankélévitch, Vladimir
Jay, John
Jefferies, Richard
Jefferson, Thomas
Jerome, Saint
Ji Aoi Isshi (13th century). Japanese Zen master.
Joan of Arc
Jodorowsky, Alejandro
John of Ruysbroeck
John of the Cross, Saint
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), Often referred to as Dr. Johnson, he was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer.
Johnson, Toby
Jones, Charlie “Tremendous”
Jong, Erica
Jordan, David Star
Joyce, James
Julian of Norwich
Jung, Carl
Kabat-Zinn, Jon
Kabat-Zinn, Myla
Kabir
Kafka, Franz
Kant, Immanuel
Karr, Alphonse
Katha Upanishad, The
Katie, Byron
Kaye, Danny
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Keeley, James (1974- ). U.S. author of Walking with God, spiritual teacher, and principal partner in Oregon-based LionHeart Consulting. He works to help all people “experience the ridiculously and unbelievabley happy life that comes from living in harmony with the Divine.”
Keen, Sam
Keith, Kent M.
Keller, Helen
Kelley, Emma Dunham
Kempis, Thomas à
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kent, Corita
Key, Ellen
Keyes, Jr., Ken
Khan, Hazrat Inayat (1882-1927). Indian spiritual teacher and an exemplar of Universal Sufism, a universalist spiritual movement he founded while traveling n the West.
Khan, Vilayat Inayat (1916-2004). The eldest son of Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, head of the Sufi Order International. In 1975 he founded the Abode of the Message, which continues to serve as the central residential community of the Sufi Order International, a conference and retreat center, and a center of esoteric study.
Kierkegaard, Søren
King, Jr., Martin Luther
Kingsolver, Barbara
Kleiser, Grenville
Klemme, E. J. Professor of Psychology and Education at State Normal School in Ellensburg, Washington, in the early part of the twentieth century.
Kor, Eva (1934- ). Born in the village of Portz, Romania, Eva and her twin sister, Miriam, were imprisoned at the Auschwitz death camp, where they were subjected to horrific medical experiments performed by Dr. Josef Mengele. In 1995, she founded the CANDLES Holocaust Museum in Terra Haute, Indiana. CANDLES is an acronym for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors.
Krishnamurti, Jiddu
Krutch, Joseph Wood
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
Kushner, Rabbi Harold
Kybalion, The
La Bruyère, Jean de
La Fontaine, Jean de
Lagemann, John Kord
Lake, John G.
L’Amour, Louis
Langbridge, Frederick
Langya
Lao Tzu
La Rochefoucauld, François de
Lauretta, Sister Mary
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Law, William
Lawrence, D. H.
Leadbeater, C. W.
Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy
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Lees, Lena
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Leibniz, Gottfried
Leighton, Robert
L’Engle, Madeleine
Leonard, Cicero
Leonardo da Vinci
Levenson, Lester
Levine, Mark
Levine, Stephen
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Lewis, C. S.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
Liddell, Eric
Liebman, Joshua Loth
Lincoln, Abraham
Lind, Jenny
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Linkletter, Art
Lin Yutang
Logue, Christopher
London, Jack
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lorde, Audre
Lowell, James Russell
Lowery, Joseph
Luther, John
Mabie, Hamilton Wright
MacArthur, Douglas
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
MacDonald, George
Machado, Antonio
MacLaine, Shirley
MacLaren, Jim
Maclean, J. Keneedy
Macy, Joanna
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Maharshi, Sri Ramana (1879-1950). Hindu spiritual master.
Mahasaya, Lahiri
Maistre, Joseph de
Maltz, Dr. Maxwell
Mandino, Og
Mann, Horace
Mannes, Marya
Manning, James
Manton, Thomas
Manu Smriti
Marden, Orison Swett
Marston, Ralph
Marty, Martin
Martyr, Peter
Maslow, Abraham
Massey, Gerald
Matsumura, Molleen
Matsuo Basho
Mau, Bruce
Maudsley, Henry
Maugham, W. Somerset
Maxwell, Elaine
May, Rollo
McCormick, Elsie
McCourt, Malachy
McGill, Bryant H.
McLaughlin, Mignon
Meir, Golda
Melmoth, William
Mello, Anthony de
Melvill, Henry
Menninger, Dr. Karl
Meredith, Don
Meredith, George
Merton, Thomas
Middlemas, Crystal
Midrash Tanhama
Milarepa
Miller, Alice
Miller, Henry
Miller, Jr., Walter M.
Millman, Dan
Milton, John
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Mizuta Masahide
Moffitt, Phillip
Monroe, Anne Shannon
Montagu, Ashley
Montagu, Mary
Montaigne, Michel de
Moore, Hannah
Moore, Henry
Moore, Mary Tyler
Moore, Thomas
Morihei Ueshiba
Morris, Lewis
Morris, William
Morrison-Reed, Mark
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Mortman, Doris
Moses, Yula
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Mother Teresa
Mundaka Upanishad, The
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Muso Kokushi (1275-1351). The most famous monk of his time, he was not only a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk, he was also a calligraphist, poet, and garden designer.
Muste, A. J.
Myss, Caroline
Nachman of Breslov, Rebbe
Nagler, Michael N.
Naimy, Mikhail
Nair, Keshavan
Naropa Institute
Naylor, Gloria
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Newcomb, Charles B.
Newton, Isaac
Newton, Joseph Fort
Nicholas, David
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nin, Anaïs
Ning Lao T’ai-t’ ai
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nizer, Louis
Noble, Alex
Norris, Kathleen
Nouwen, Henri
Nowak, Kate
Nowlan, Alden
Nyad, Diana
Oliver, Gary. LIving U.S. author of numerous books. Oliver is a psychologist and Executive Director of the Center for Relationship Enrichment in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
Olmos, Edward Jame
Oppenheim, James
Orloff, Judith
Ornish, Dr. Dean
Osho
Osteen, Joel (1963- ). U.S. author, televangelist, and senior pastor of Lakewood church in Houston, Texas, a church that Forbes has called the largest and fastest growing congregation in America. Osteen is known for sharing positive messages of hope and encouragement. His ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in over one hundred countries.
Overton, Patrick
Ovid
Packer, Boyd K.
Packer, Duane
Paddison, Sara
Paine, Thomas
Pargeter, Edith
Parker, Theodore
Parks, Gordon
Parrish, Leslie
Parrish, Mary
Parton, Dolly
Pascal, Blaise
Patanjali
Patent, Arnold
Paton, Alan
Patrick, John
Paul, Stephen C.
Pavese, Cesare
Peace Pilgrim
Peale, Norman Vincent
Pearce, Joseph Chilton
Pearson, Carol
Peck, M. Scott
Penn, Jack
Penney, Alexandria
Perret, Gene
Perry, Ted
Peter, Laurence J.
Petit-Senn, John
Phillpotts, Eden
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Pickford, Mary
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Pinchback, P. B. S.
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Pirsig, Robert M.
Plato
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Pope, Alexander
Porchia, Antonio
Porteus, Beilby
Powell, John
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Preston, Margaret Junkin
Priestly, J. B.
Pritchard, Michael
Proust, Marcel
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Quarles, Francis
Rader, Lyell
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli
Rama, Swami
Ramakrishna, Sri
Ram Dass
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Rapin, Paul de
Ravn, Karen. Living U.S. writer; former writer for Hallmark Cards and former columnist for the Monterey County Herald in Monterey, California.
Rawat, Prem (Maharaji)
Ray, Marie Beynon
Reade, Charles
Redpath, Alan
Reichenbach, Hans
Reik, Theodor
Remen, Dr. Rachel Naomi
Retz, Cardinal de
Richards, Mary Caroline
Richter, Johann
Rig Veda
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Robbins, Anthony
Robbins, Tom
Roberts, Jane (Seth)
Robertson, Frederick William
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Roche, Arthur Somers
Rodegast, Pat (Emmanuel)
Rogers, Will
Rohn, Jim
Roman, Sanaya
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rose, Richard
Ross, Joseph
Rossetti, Christina
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Roy, Arundhati
Rubietta, Jane. Living U.S. author and inspirational, ecumenical women’s speaker. Her books include Come Along: The Journey into a More Intimate Faith, Come Closer: A Call to Life, Love, and Breakfast on the Beach, and Grace Points: Growth and Guidance in Times of Change.
Rubin, Theodore Isaac
Rufus, Quintus Curtius
Ruiz, Don Miguel
Rumi
Runbeck, Margaret Lee
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
Sablé, Madame de
Safire, William
Sahtouris, Elisabet
Sai Baba, Sri Sathya
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
Sales, Saint Francois de
Salk, Jonas
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Sarton, May (1912-1995). Pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.
Schaar, John
Schaef, Anne Wilson
Schnell, Donald
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schreiner, Olive
Schuller, Robert
Schulweis, Rabbi Harold M. (1925- ). One of the best-known pulpit rabbis in America, Schulweis has been the spiritual leader at Temple Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California, since 1970. He is the Founding Chairman of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, an organization that identifies and offers grants to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews threatened by the agents of Nazi savagery. He is also the Founder of Jewish World Watch, a synagogue-based organization dedicated to raising both awareness and funds to protest the genocide in Darfur, and bringing vital assistance to the victims of its unrest. He is the author of numerous books, including Conscience: The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey.
Schweitzer, Albert
Scriver, Christian
Seibert, Jeff
Selye, Hans
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 3 BCE–65 AD). Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was later forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, he may have been innocent.
Setter, Maurice
Sexton, Anne
Shah, Idries
Shain, Merle
Shakespeare, William
Shantideva
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheehan, Dr. George
Sheehy, Gail
Sheen, Fulton J.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shinn, Florence Scovel
Shinseki, General Eric
Shockley, William
Shore, Dinah
Shunryu Suzuki
Siegel, Dr. Bernie
Sills, Beverly
Simpson, Alan
Smedes, Lewis B.
Smiles, Samuel
Smith, Betty
Smith, Huston
Smith, Logan Pearsall
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Socrates
Solomon, Beverly. U.S. creative director for musee-solomon, the art and design business she runs with her husband, artist Pablo Solomon, located in Lampasas, Texas.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Soong May-ling
Soros, George
Spangler, David
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Steindl-Rast, David
Street, D. M.
Swedenborg, Emanuel
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Swetchine, Madame
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Swindoll, Charles R.
Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert
Tagore, Rabindranath
Taisen Deshimaru
T’ai -shang Kan-ying P’ien
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van Gogh, Vincent
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Voltaire
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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
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Wordsworth, William
Wu Men Hui-k’ai
Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Yancey, Philip
Yasutani Hakuun
Yeats, William Butler
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Yung-chia Ta-shih
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