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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.

Robert Bly

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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Madison
Minnesota
Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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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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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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Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
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I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.
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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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The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
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I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
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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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I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.
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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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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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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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