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….

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside..

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this..

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is a….

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead..

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone..

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic….

I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea..

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night..

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon..

If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down; matter,….

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience..