Off in the nether lands, I heard a sound

Like the beating of heavenly wings

And deep in my brain, I can hear a refrain

Of my soul as she rises and sings

Anthems to glory and anthems to love

And hymns filled with earthly delight

Like the songs that the darkness composes to worship the light

Dan Fogelberg, from Nether Lands

“With passion pray. With passion work. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?”

Rumi, 13th century Sufi mystic and poet

“A good gauge of spiritual health is to write down the three things you most want. If they in any way differ, you are in trouble.”

Jalaludin Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet

Kalos Kagathos. Beauty and virtue or beauty and goodness. That is the philosophy underlying the gymnasium in ancient Greece. Those are the words that finally made my double major in college make sense.