Robert Bly Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• 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.

  Robert Bly

  Warrior, Boys, Men

  Robert Bly (2004). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.149, Da Capo Press

• 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.

  Robert Bly

  Beauty, Flower, Garden

  Robert Bly (2011). “Kabir: Ecstatic Poems”, p.86, Beacon Press

• If a man, cautious,
  hides his limp,
  Somebody has to limp it! Things
  do it; the surroundings limp.
  House walls get scars,
  the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.

  Robert Bly

  Wall, Men, Car

  Robert Bly (1981). “The man in the black coat turns: poems”

• During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing.

  Robert Bly

  Men, House, He Man

  Source: www.utne.com

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