The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he says, over and over; and he is. But that very identification with victimhood keeps the soul house open and available for still more invasions. Most American men today do not have enough awakened or living warriors inside to defend their soul houses. And most people, men or women, do not know what genuine outward or inward warriors would look like, or feel like.
The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed. - Robert Bly
The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.
- Robert Bly
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again. - Robert Bly
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
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. - Robert Bly
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.
Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you. - Robert Bly
Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be. - Robert Bly
... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.
We make the path by walking. - Robert Bly
We make the path by walking.
As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken. - Robert Bly
As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an e… - Robert Bly
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an e…
The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation. - Robert Bly
The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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