What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.

I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.

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

What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

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