Reflections on Spiritual Influences

Since I'm amidst a 3 year meditation, and I just finished Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy, I'm going to reflect a bit on the authors who influenced be spiritually. It's a good chance to reflect on where I stand and where to go from here.

Age 14: Albert Schweitzer
Age 17: Leo Tolstoy
Age 19: Seneca
Age 20: G. k. Chesterton
Age  22: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Age 29: Lao Tzu; Chuang Tzu
Age 31: Catherine Boothe; Jean Vanier; Carl Sagan; Emerson
Age 32: Merlin Stone
Age 33: Albert Camus
Age 34: Ninian Smart; Courtney Weber
Age 35: Josh Boswell; Ben Worthington III; Buddhism; Thich Naght Hahn; Ajahn Chah; Suzuki; Eva Wong; Red Pine; John Cleese; Diane Wolkstein; Aldous Huxley

There's a huge problem with this in that my influences would be spread out throughout the years. I only first read Huxley now, but it'll be a while before I fully read him. Same for when I read Emerson and when I read Camus. And I start Tolstoy and Schweitzer in my teen years, sure, but I didn't swim fully in depth with them until I was 30.

I guess all in all, I still have a lot of studying to do!