An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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.'
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.