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One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.
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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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Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.
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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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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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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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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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Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
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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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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.
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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.
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Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.
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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 think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.
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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.
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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 want nothing from You but to see You.
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Poetry keeps longing alive.
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