Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

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

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

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

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.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.