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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

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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 sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
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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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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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There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
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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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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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What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.
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Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.
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Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.
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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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Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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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You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
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People tend to take stories literally these days.
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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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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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