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

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

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.

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

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