... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

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 you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

My life failed on the very day I was born.