I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.