The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.

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

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.

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

The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he says, over and over; and he is. But that very identification with victimhood keeps the soul house open and available for still more invasions. Most American men today do not have enough awakened or living warriors inside to defend their soul houses. And most people, men or women, do not know what genuine outward or inward warriors would look like, or feel like.