The Dream
There is no need of a way out! Don’t you see that a way out is also part of the dream. All you have to do is see the dream as a dream… The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory…Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all or none of it and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream you have done all that needs be done.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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As Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, in the late nineteenth century, it is not female biology that has betrayed us, but the beliefs and the stories we have about ourselves. Most of the religious stories that most on the globe grew up with at this time, did not have the female in care-ful mind. Most world religions at this point in time still specifically story the female as problematic to creation or enlightenment or whatever, or at least secondary: though some are clever enough to attempt to disguise it. The term ‘God’ still commonly invokes the ‘Face of Ultimate Reality,’ the Absolute, and the term ‘Goddess’ still overwhelmingly invokes a mere mythological entity.
-Glenys Livingstone Ph.D
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Men fear the woman’s earthiness. Her earthiness is her power,
