One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

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

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.