There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.
Robert BlyMale initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.
Robert BlyI think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.
Robert BlyThe 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