

“Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable.”
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the task of domesticating him. Ironically, if he gives in he’ll resent her for it, and she in turn will wonder where the passion has gone.”
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“We don’t need accountability groups; we need fellow warriors, someone to fight alongside, someone to watch our back.”
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey . . . something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.”
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“In order to understand how a man receives a wound, you must understand the central truth of a boy’s journey to manhood: Masculinity is bestowed. A boy learns who he is and what he’s got from a man, or the company of men. He cannot learn it any other place. He cannot learn it from other boys, and he cannot learn it from the world of women.”
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
― Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
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