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.

Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'

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.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

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