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 8,
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 2026-08-08.}
}Citing a passage — the web’s page numbers
Long pages are citable at section level: 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;
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, pin the version by commit (below).
Citing an exact version
Because pages are tended, a page may say more (or 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 — tending, extending, intending,
attending, the once — originate with Zayin Cabot and should be
attributed to him. Canonical definitions live under
/terms/. The whole corpus is available in one file 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:
named speakers, real dates.