Sex Is The Divine In Its Most

The Heart Of Religion Is Not Altered States But Altered Traits Of Character. For Me, Then, The Test Of A Substance's Religious Worth Or Validity Is Not What Kind Of Far-out Experience It Can Produce, But Is The Life Improved By Its Use? That's The Test. Now, On That Score, If You Remove The "religious Cocoon," The Experiences Don't Seem To Have Much In The Way Of Discernible, Traceable Effects.

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.

With Mind Distracted, Never Thinking, "death Is Coming," To Slave Away On The Pointless Business Of Mundane Life, And Then To Come Out Empty--it Is A Tragic Error. (116) Trans By Robert Thurman

So Always, If We Look Back, Concern For Face-to-face Morality, And Its Modern Emphasis On Justice As Well, Have Historically Evolved As Religious Issues.

In Mysteries What We Know, And Our Realization Of What We Do Not Know, Proceed Together; The Larger The Island Of Knowledge, The Longer The Shoreline Of Wonder. It Is Like The Quantum World, Where The More We Understand Its Formalism, The Stranger That World Becomes.