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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.

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 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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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'
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The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.
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It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.
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We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
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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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Male initiation does not move toward machoism on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
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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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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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