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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
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Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.
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I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
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I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
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Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
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In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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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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The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.
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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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And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
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In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
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In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.
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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
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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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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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