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Robert Bly
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
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If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture that is why suburban children want rap music.
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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison they turn to poetry.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.
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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down matter, in drudgery, takes it up.
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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
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Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'
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I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.
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