There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

We make the path by walking.

Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.

Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the highest thing. . . . Another way to look at it is that the aim of the person is not to be detached, but to be more attached-to be attached to working; to be attached to making chairs or something that helps everyone; to be attached to beauty; to be attached to music.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.