Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi

by Richard Rohr

on my observation and study, in these general ways.4 The feminine principle has greater interest in the inner; the soul; the formless, deeper feeling; intuition; connections; harmony; beauty; and relationality in general. It is more identified with lunar subtlety and not the over-differentiating light of the masculine sun god or the literalism and linearity of the left brain. Not all women fully identify with the feminine principle, of course, and some men do, but these descriptors give you a sense of what I mean by the feminine. Carl Jung (1875–1961) called it a more “diffused awareness,” both for good and for ill.