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“Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.”

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Robert Bly, born on December 23, 1926, is a renowned American poet. His poetry is known for its profound emotion and rich imagination, which has had a profound impact on contemporary poetry. more

“All 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.”

Way Years Long Night Girl Sides Results Boys Watches Longing Get Up Japan Roof Shepherds Milky Way Rooftops Weavers

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“Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.”

Stars Imagine Distance Likes Vertical

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“There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.”

States Spiritual Attention Quality Angel Ancestor Vertical

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“One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.”

Soul Spirit Water Sweet Higher Tragedy Rising Melancholy Drowning

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“If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.”

Ifs Years Young Regard Sibling Whales Ecological Owl Young Ones

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“Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.”

War Care Boundaries Borders Shirts Worn T Shirt Unlikely Sibling

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“In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.”

Able Energy Social Independent Replaced

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“During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing.”

Men House He Man Men And Women Dominant Interiors

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