To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.
Robert BlyMale initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
Robert BlyThere's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.
Robert Bly