Robert L. Moore > Quotes

“Mircea Eliade researched the role of sacred space extensively. He concluded that space that has been ritually hallowed is essential to initiations of every kind.”
― Robert L. Moore, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering Masculinity Through the Lens of Archetypal Psychology - A Journey into the Male Psyche and Its Four Essential Aspects

“The Trickster is the archetype that rushes in to fill the vacuum in the immature man or boy left by the boy’s denial of and lack of connection with the Divine Child. The Trickster gets activated developmentally within us when we have been depreciated and attacked by our parents (or older siblings), when we have been emotionally abused. If we don’t feel our real specialness, we will come under the power of the Trickster, the “Know-It-All,” and deflate others’ sense of their specialness, even when such deflation is not called for. The Know-It-All Trickster has no heroes, because to have heroes is to admire others. We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness, and a developing sense of security about our own creative energies. The”
― Robert L. Moore, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering Masculinity Through the Lens of Archetypal Psychology - A Journey into the Male Psyche and Its Four Essential Aspects

“Apart from God everything is alien and remote and is held together simply by force. Satan by dint of his superior spiritual powers has succeeded in leading men astray by suggesting to them that they will become as gods. But by the pursuit of evil and by the substitution of himself for God, man, so far from becoming the God-like being of his dreams, becomes the slave of his lower nature, and, at the same time, by losing his higher nature becomes subject to natural necessity and ceases to be spiritually determined from within.”
― Robert L. Moore, Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity

“if you are not in touch with the king in the other world, your life in this world is going to be a terrible mess.”
― Robert L. Moore, Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity