Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.