If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.

If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.