I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.