“There’s a skin or hide between ourselves and our inner being. And in the West that skin is very thick. Inside us there’s a sea and that sea is your inner life, your spiritual life, and your sexual impulses - everything you’ve gotten from the memory stores of evolution. Then there’s the outside world made of buildings and automobiles. And these two worlds can’t rub against each other. It’s too painful. Therefore you develop a hide exactly like a cow develops a hide. You don’t want her guts to rub against the barn.” —Robert Bly spoken to Lewis Hyde in an interview taken from Robert Bly In This World. Photo by Luke Storms taken somewhere in India when I was there in 2005. Text courtesy of the exceptional curator at The Beauty We Love.

“There’s a skin or hide between ourselves and our inner being. And in the West that skin is very thick. Inside us there’s a sea and that sea is your inner life, your spiritual life, and your sexual impulses - everything you’ve gotten from the memory stores of evolution. Then there’s the outside world made of buildings and automobiles. And these two worlds can’t rub against each other. It’s too painful. Therefore you develop a hide exactly like a cow develops a hide. You don’t want her guts to rub against the barn.”

—Robert Bly spoken to Lewis Hyde in an interview taken from Robert Bly In This World.

Photo by Luke Storms taken somewhere in India when I was there in 2005. Text courtesy of the exceptional curator at The Beauty We Love.

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