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“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.”

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.”

“Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.”

Universe Consciousness Core Supreme Mutual Feminine Masculine Penetration Shiva Shakti

Book:Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love

Source: Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love

“Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness.”

Men Mean Real Consciousness Aspect Liberation Feminine Integrating

Author:Marianne Williamson

“People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.”

People Humans Values Consciousness Journey Involved Aspect Feminine Receptive Human Consciousness Inner Journey

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it legitimized patriarchal power in the culture at large. Here alone is enough reason to recover the Divine Feminine, for there is a real and undeniable connection between the repression of the feminine in our deity and the repression of women.”

Humans Real Reason Enough Culture Consciousness Divine Connections Males Feminine Exclusive Deities Imagery Repression Imbalance Human Consciousness Divine Feminine

Author:Sue Monk Kidd