The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

We make the path by walking.

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

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

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.

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.