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 BlyThe ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.
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 BlyAll 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.
Robert BlyBy the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.
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 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