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

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

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.

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.

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.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.