All -isms end up in schisms.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

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 are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.