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Everything is conversation.

There's some sort of exchange that goes on between human beings that is one of the highest things we do.

Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.

I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.

Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

Fold within fold, the beloved
drowns in its own being. This world
is drenched with that drowning.

If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.

These poems need to be released from their cages,

Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.

A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.

I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity ... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral ...