The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge..

I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks lik….

Be careful how quickly you give away your fire..

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that i….

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions..

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?.

The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, ….

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us..

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinkin….

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a ….

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousan….

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again..

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as la….

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they d….

I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever..

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends..

Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was t….

The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed..

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal..

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life..

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning..