“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.” MenHelpingBodyYoungTurnsBuildingEmotionalDisciplineCapableOrdinaryVariousGuidesYoung ManEcstasyMentorManhoodOrdinary LifeContainingBoyhoodBody Building Author:Robert Bly
“Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the highest thing. . . . Another way to look at it is that the aim of the person is not to be detached, but to be more attached-to be attached to working; to be attached to making chairs or something that helps everyone; to be attached to beauty; to be attached to music.” ThinkingWayLooksPersonsHelpingBodyCultureGivenVisionPureHighestCommitmentAimLeavingChairsAnother WayTranscendenceDetachmentDetachedPure Love Author:Robert Bly
“I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.” BodyLightMovingBornMoonRisen Author:Robert Bly
“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.” BodyHouseBeautyFlowerThousandSittingMy FriendsGardenYour BodyBotherGlimpsePetalsExcursionsBeauty On The Inside Book:Kabir: Ecstatic Poems Source: Kabir: Ecstatic Poems
