It's Quite Common For A Sufi Mystic

Here In America, Religious People Often Prefer To Be Right Rather Than Compassionate. They've Lost The Axial Age Vision Of Concern For Everybody.

...there Is Something Wrong With Any Spirituality That Does Not Inspire Selfless Concern For Others

So, We Think About God Far To Easily And That's Because Of A Lot Of Social, Intellectual, And Scientific Changes That Have Taken Place In The Western World And That Has Made God Very Problematic For A Lot Of People.

You Know How It Is In The Symphony When You Are Listening To The Symphony, The Last Notes Die Away, And There's Often A Beat Of Silence In The Auditorium Before The Applause Begins. It's A Very Full And Pregnant Silence. Now Theology Should Bring Us To Live Into That Silence, Into That Pregnant Pause.

From The Muslims I Learned From The Extraordinary Pluralism Of The Koran, The Fact That The Koran Endorses Every Single One Of The Major World Faiths, But I Was Particularly Enthralled By The Sufi Tradition, The Mystical Tradition Of Islam, Which Is So Open To Other Religious Faiths.