To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

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

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