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I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.
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Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.
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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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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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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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To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.
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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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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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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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We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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