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.

What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

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

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

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.