“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.” BelieveSpiritualSpiritualityBeliefI BelieveWomenMovementGeniusFunctionIntuitionTendenciesIntuitiveNineteenth CenturyElectrical Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations” MenFeelsSpiritualNextWomenGroupsSonPrayingCapableEnlightenmentEasternAdviseBe A ManIncarnation Author:Frederick Lenz
“They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.” DoneSpiritualPoliticalSocialWomenEconomicEnlightenmentRepressionIdeological Author:Frederick Lenz
“Consider your second attention as a spiritual perceiver. Consider how you use it. You may plead innocence. You're not doing anything wrong. Don't feel that you've sinned. You have done what you had to do to survive, as did your mother, as did your grandmother.” FeelsMayDoneUseSpiritualMotherWomenAttentionEnlightenmentInnocenceGrandmotherYour Grandmother Author:Frederick Lenz
“Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.” WayEarthSpiritualReligionOrderNamesWomenPowerfulChristianityEnlightenmentThreatPerpetuatingSpiritual Enlightenment Author:Riane Eisler
“It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.” ThinkingIdeasHardLightAgeSpiritualYoungReligionFatherProcessWomenVoiceWaterAnswersTelevisionIntellectualConversionYoung AgeDeitiesBishopsPouringCatechismBlinding Light Author:Susan Jacoby
“To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.” SpiritualReligionTurnsWomenImaginationHealingMagicResourcesWeakMiracleActiveCuresAcquireYearningWoundedResorts Book:Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred Source: Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred
“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.” WayLifeStillsSpiritualLife IsWomenGrowthLearningInspirational LifeConflictRemainsThis LifeAnalysisMeaning Of LifeResolveInsperationalTherapistsInner ConflictMetaphors Of Life Author:Karen Horney