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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
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As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.
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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.
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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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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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