The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

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

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.'

If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.

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

I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.