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Poet Robert Bly has also explored a version of this pattern, which he calls the “naïve male” and identifies by several traits: The man assumes that others are sincere and fair, without seeing their shadows. With this kind of blindness, he has special, prized relationships only with certain people. In addition, he may be passive in relationships,
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“Men have been depressed now for many years in their male and resplendent selves, depressed into dejection and almost abjection.
Robert Bly • Iron John
Without her, they feel restless. Many women I’ve worked with over the years began their first session with some variation of: “Well, I don’t feel bad, but I don’t feel good either.” I think that condition is not a great mystery. We know it comes from not enough muck. The cure? La Loba. Find the two-million-year-old woman. She is caretaker of the
... See moreDr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Bill Plotkin • 4 highlights
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The old fairy tales, we are told by their modern interpreters, Bruno Bettelheim, Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes, are ancient maps, offering their own guidance for the development of full human beings.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
David Whyte • 13 highlights
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been
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