Quotes by Robert Bly

Robert Bly

… where a man’s wound is, that is where his genius will be.

Genius

Men

Wounds

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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.

Lazy

Moving

Tumbleweeds

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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

Fart

Men

Needs

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Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

America

Community

White

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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.

Believe

Fairy Stories

Rights

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Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

Half

Views

Want

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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.

Boys

Girl

Night

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All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn’t exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don’t have a democracy. You have a sibling society.

School

Sibling

Thinking

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An elder is someone who understands that the world belongs to the dead.

Elders

World

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And why shouldn’t the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

Caught

Earth

Men

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