I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?