"Think in ways you have never thought before.
If a phone rings think of it as carrying a message
larger than anything you have ever heard,
vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats.
Think that someone may bring a bear to your door,
maybe wounded or deranged
and think that a moose has risen out of the lake
and he is carrying on his antlers a child of your own,
whom you have never seen.
When someone knocks on the door
think that he is about to give you something large,
tell you you are forgiven
or that it is not necessary to work all the time
or that it has been decided that if you lie down,
no one will die."
-Robert Bly
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Ahhhhh. That feels good in my brain.
Jamie and I were just speaking about Robert Bly (I have not done any reading of his work myself..) and this is lovely. Thanks Syd!
"or that it is necessary to work all the time
or that it has been decided that if you lie down,
no one will die."
just for you :)
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