There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.
Robert BlyIn the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
Robert BlyI have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
Robert BlyMale initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
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