People tend to take stories literally these days.

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

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.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

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

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.