Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Foreword Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Chapter 59 Chapter 60 Chapter 61 Chapter 62 Chapter 63 Chapter 64 NOTES NOTES ON THE ADAPTATION BIBLIOGRAPHY Acknowledgements BY STEPHEN MITCHELL POETRY Parables and Portraits FICTION The Frog Prince Meetings with the Archangel NONFICTION A Thousand Names for Joy (with Byron Katie) Loving What Is (with Byron Katie) The Gospel According to Jesus TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS The Second Book of the Tao Gilgamesh Bhagavad Gita Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching (with James A. Autry) Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda Genesis Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke A Book of Psalms The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis Tao Te Ching The Book of Job The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (with Chana Bloch) The Sonnets to Orpheus The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke Letters to a Young Poet The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke EDITED BY STEPHEN MITCHELL Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie The Essence of Wisdom: Words from the Masters to Illuminate the Spiritual Path Bestiary: An Anthology of Poems about Animals Song of Myself Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology (with Robert Hass) The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn THE PENGUIN PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England • Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) • Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) • Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi—110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in 2009 by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright © Stephen Mitchell, 2009