This Little Light of Mine Series is a project that seeks to broaden our knowledge of and perspective on world traditions of wisdom and spirituality. By gathering and adapting material from primary texts, proverbs, poems, and wisdom sayings, many of them quite ancient, we aim to open windows onto wisdom as it was, and continues to be, conceived and lived in cultures around the globe. The books in the series are intended to engage children, young adults, educators, and parents alike to help us look beyond our own understandings of life, and to consult and to profit from the wisdom traditions of humankind. It is our hope that the volumes in the This Little Light of Mine Series will play some small role in furthering cross-cultural understanding and in building homes and schools in which peace can flourish.