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.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

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

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

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.'