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

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 woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

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

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

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

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.