It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.

I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's been changed into a coffee shop. Right where Johnny used to change my oil, I have a latte and take out my little book bag. It doesn't sound very austere.

If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.

I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them.

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

There's some sort of exchange that goes on between human beings that is one of the highest things we do.