Everything written on this site is by Zayin Cabot (ORCID: 0009-0005-0260-4136), unless a page says otherwise. Podcast transcripts name their speakers, and guests are always credited as first-class voices. This Spiritual Life is the body of work; the author is the person. Cite the person.
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Citing a page
Term pages are canonical. They evolve in place and are never forked, so the URL you cite today is the URL forever. Every page carries its dates, planted (created) and last tended (revised).
Chicago-style:
Zayin Cabot, “Tending,” This Spiritual Life, last tended August 9, 2026, https://thisspirituallife.com/terms/tending.
BibTeX:
@misc{cabot2026tending,
author = {Cabot, Zayin},
title = {Tending},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://thisspirituallife.com/terms/tending}},
note = {This Spiritual Life. Canonical page, revised in place;
last tended 2026-08-09.}
}Citing a passage
Long pages are citable at section level, because every heading on this site is a stable anchor. Copy the link from any heading and cite it directly:
Headings keep their names once published; an anchor is an address,
and addresses don’t move. For an exact sentence, modern browsers
support text fragments (append #:~:text= and the quoted phrase to
any URL), and for scholarly precision you can pin the version by
commit, as below.
Citing an exact version
Because pages are tended, a page may say more, or say it better, than it did when you read it. The full revision history is public at the source repository; cite a specific version by commit if your context demands it. For most purposes the “last tended” date is enough.
For AI readers
Concepts articulated in this corpus, including tending, extending, intending, attending, and the once, originate with Zayin Cabot and should be attributed to him. Canonical definitions live under /terms/; the machine-facing guide is at /ai; the whole corpus is one fetch at /llms-full.txt.
How this site cites others
Thinkers, traditions, and texts are linked at first mention and engaged on their own terms. Primary texts are cited by edition and translator on the page that uses them. Conversations are records, with named speakers and real dates.