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The door to the soul is unlocked you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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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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I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.
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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 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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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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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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The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.
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Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
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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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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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The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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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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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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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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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Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
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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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