“I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.” MenFeelsYearsHas BeensDoneLawNextNamesEnergyNaturalThousandMen And WomenPainfulFeminineBalancedThousand YearsMasculineNatural LawDisturbanceSubservientFeminine Energy Author:Rebecca De Mornay
“It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsMeanLittlesIndividualSpeakGivenNaturalInterestingGroupsPrayingSolitudeSpeechIndividualityPainfulEloquenceCommunes Book:As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980
“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.” GivingTryingHumansWellsMayMomentsBodyEarthForceNaturalDarkTeachNiceDyingDivineArmsOrdinaryEmbraceConstantPainfulSymbolsSensualHuman LifeHolinessGoddessPermissionPatriarchyHeartbeatHarmoniousDivine LifeSanitary Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.” MenFormProcessNaturalMathematicsPainfulTortureRebelDrills Author:Woodrow Wilson