There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

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

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

I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.