We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out ag….

We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing….

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief..

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as ….

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are..

As a parent you have to do some renunciation..

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness..

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person..

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and find….

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods..

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people..

To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that myster….

Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild ….

During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entir….

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken..

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an e….

Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink..

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation..

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you..

We make the path by walking..

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be..