I Would Not Say That Ethical Behavior

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.

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 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.

In India There Was A Sense Of Time That Does Not Tick With Modern Clocks, Just As There Is A Knowledge That Is Not Gained Through Science And Empirical Experiments. In The Modern West Knowledge Is Of Objective, Finite Particulars In Historical Time. India Recognizes That Kind Of Useful Information: It Calls It "lower Knowledge." Higher Knowledge (paravidya) Proceeds Differently, Or Rather It Doesn't Proceed At All But Enters History Full-blown On The Morning Of A New Creation.

...like A Magnetic Compass Turning North, I Always Tried To Head In The Direction Of The Better, Which Is The Direction To God. ...the Directions That Appeared To Lead Away From Christianity Led Me Deeper Into It.