Astronomy Quote by Robert Bly

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

— Thomas M. Disch

I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast…

— Leroy Chiao

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Revolution- a principle stepping over vast distances of time.”

— Gustav Landauer

“Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Robert Bly

If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the…

— Robert Bly

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

— Robert Bly

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

— Robert Bly

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

— Robert Bly

Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and…

— Robert Bly

The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy…

— Robert Bly