Sally McKirgan: “Two poems by James Dillet Freeman, sometimes known as ‘the poet laureate of the moon,’ reside on the moon. ‘I am There’ was taken by Astronaut James B. Irwin in 1971, and ‘Prayer for Protection’ was taken by Lunar Commander ‘Buzz’ Aldrin in July 1969. Here are Freeman’s poems.”

Lawrence Nagel: “Looking for light from within also came around to looking outward and embracing a pastiche of images offered up by the places I passed along my way. I could not know what I might find — it would come in its own time. I would just walk, relax, and remain mindful and receptive.”

Edward Hirsch: “Sometimes, from a higher perspective, we can laugh at a more contracted version of ourselves that we recall, or perhaps see another acting out, and we can do so with compassion. And then an even higher octave is when we are in a more-or-less liberated state and can hear the ‘laughter of the gods,’ or the humor of the God’s-Eye-View, from which life, and the entire cosmos, is just a game.”

Jim Hatton: “So, what is prayer? It is not an asking for something outside of ourselves; rather, it is the changing of our own minds in order to allow more good into our human experience.”

Ed Hirsch: “Everyone knows about beingness; it is just that it is so obvious that people either are completely oblivious to it, or when they attend to it, it tends to be a merely abstract idea. Spiritual practice is a way of trying to duplicate what is given by grace, which is unearned because it is already our deepest nature.”

Jim Hawes: “One’s ego (conditioned mind) is always attempting to ensnare you into fear, anger, judgments or anxiety. But, when you catch or observe one of these negative thoughts, at that very moment you are in what Tolle calls the sacred present or now.”

Jim Hatton: “What if we could all stop labeling each other, and ourselves, as ‘good or bad’ or ‘right or wrong’?”

In which Peter Finkle breathes life into the “ordinary” 15 minutes that start the day, part of the “‘ordinary magnificence’ that fills each of our lives.”

Hirsch: “Feel the play of inhale and exhale as a play between the infinitesimal and the infinite, the inhale opening into the infinitesimal and the exhale opening into the infinite. On the inhales, feel that the infinite is condensing into the infinitesimal, and on the exhales, feel that the infinitesimal is expanding into the infinite.”

Laura Paxson: “As I approached 50, crisis clichés clattered into place. My sons no longer ‘needed’ me. My crumbling marriage fell apart. I floundered into middle age and the great ‘Now What?’ I eventually stumbled into hiking and found a kind of peace.”