J. Krishnamurti asks and then addresses the question: Can peace be brought about by the mind. - He also answers the question: Will you please teach me how to love. - The words featured in this episode come from talks that Krishnamurti gave, tal...

Selections from the DIVINE FLASHES of Fakhruddin 'Iraqi - translated by William Chittick & Peter Lamborn Wilson - read by Charlie Mehrhoff.Divine Flashes - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi - translated by William Chittick & Peter Lambo...

Words from The Dhammapada, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joseph Fasano, Mina Loy - read by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff.The Dhammapada - Eknath Easwaran, translator - Nilgiri Press. Poet...

Honoring Meir Michel Abehsera author ofThe Possible Man: Life in the Shadow of the Just : voiced by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff. The Possible Man: Life in the shadow of the Just ...

Words offered from The Sevenfold Peace - Book 4 / The Teachings of The Elect : THE ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE translated by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely - read by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff....

Sufi Parables from the Qadari Order & other seekers of Divine Love. Ecstatic poetry of Abul Hasan al-Shustari - Leader of the Withdrawn - and Rocky Mountain Mystic, Jerry Smaldone.The Way of the Sufi - Idries Shah. ...

Allen Afterman on Poetry & Song. Charles Reznikoff : Messianic, Palestine Under the Romans, Kaddish. Charlie Mehrhoff : Eons Ago, Messiah, Impossible Times, One Last Shot Glass. Kabbalah a...

Rav Kook : the Poet of Repentance - - reading of prose poetry related to the subject of Repentance (Teshuva) composed by Rav Kook --  translated into English from Hebrew by Rachel Tova Ebner : printed in a most exquisite book,

Opening with The Miser & The Angel of Death - a parable by Attar of Nishapur, this episode challenges listeners to search themselves for the essential. - - We also feature the poetry and prose of T'ao Ch'ien (365-427 CE), consid...

IN PRAISE OF TREES - words offering gratitude, homage, awe and love for trees. Rabindranath Tagore, W.S. Merwin, Attar, John Wright, Ryokan, a chapter from The Essene Gospel of Peace, a teaching of the Chisti Sufi Order, a ...

FADING INTO SPRING : Words to honor the essence of trees. Inspirational writing on Tu B'Shvat by Sarah Yehudit Schneider & David Scaduto. Poetry by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mary Oliver, Maria Berardi, Rumi, Thich Nhat Hanh - read by <...

Words Regarding Sanctity: Abraham J. Heschel, Carlo Suarès, Attar, Maria Berardi, Rav Kook, Etty Hillesum, Li Po - read by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff.Who Is Man? - Abraham J. Heschel (Stanford University...

Courage & Liberty - an offering of words from Leonard Cohen, Walt Whitman, René Char, Alexandra Smyth, Charlie Mehrhoff - read by Before the Page host Charlie Mehrhoff.Leonard Cohen's words regarding Ariel Sha...

REGARDING FEAR: Words from Taittiriya Upanishad, Thich Nhat Hanh, Khalil Gibran, Sabine Miller, Hafiz, Idit Miriam Codish, M.K. Gandhi, Clint Frakes, Maria Beradi, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Frank Herbert, H.F. Noyes, White Eagle - read by host Charli...

M.K. Gandhi's letters to Adolph Hitler, Jiddu Krishnamurti - on how to overcome nationalism. A brief message by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Poems of Rumi and Kabir translated by Daniel Ladinsky. - Reading by Before the Page host Charlie ...

Readings from Rabindranah Tagore's GITANJALI (Song Offerings), Attar's THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS, Jerry Smaldone, Sabine Miller, Psalm 10, Rav Kook - read by host Charlie Mehrhoff. The Conference of the Bi...

The Night Before Creation, or, Midnight in Medzhybizh - by Idit Miriam Codish - takes listeners along on her recent incredible journey to the Ba'al Shem Tov's Tzion, gravesite, in the Ukraine. Idit's prose is simu...

Featuring the words of Rabindranath Tagore, Arthur Rimbaud, Dina Awwad-Srour, Charles Reznikoff, Charlie Mehrhoff. The centerpiece of this episode is a work of non-fiction entitled The Museum of Gush Etzion ...

Circles & Such - C. Mehrhoff reads Black Elk, Rilke, A.C. Koch, Mary Oliver, Dogen, Lew Welch, Scarecrow. Words regarding circles, then going beyond - yet always within. 

Featuring the poetry of Hanna Yerushalmi, Aura Chaya Gispan, Rav Kook & Charles Reznikoff - along with a real life telling by Idit Miriam Codish. Before the Page is hosted by Charlie Mehrhoff - listen...

The Rich Man - and - The Mad Dancers - read by Charlie Mehrhoff. Words from The Golden Mountain first published in 1932, and republished again, decades later, under the title Cla...

Poetry of Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabia, Sabine Miller, Maria Berardi, Jerry Smaldone, Charlie Mehrhoff.Thich Nhat Hanh - Call Me by My True Names. Rabia - Love Poems from God -

Words from WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? The Case for Constructive Peace - composed by Aldous Huxley, published in 1936. We open with a piece regarding the legend of the Sword and the Stone  entitl...

Rav Kook - Selected readings from The Torah of Tomorrow - One Song: Teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook - Rachel Tova Ebner, translator.Read by Charlie Mehrhoff.&...

The Book of James - aka The Epistle of James  - aka The Gospel of James - read by BEFORE THE PAGE host Charlie 'Scarecrow' Mehrhoff. It is only fitting that...