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This is our myth. Every woman has an Aphrodite in her. She is recognized by her overwhelming femininity
Every woman is, in part, a king’s daughter, too lovely, too perfect, too deep for the ordinary
There is something in the unconscious of a man that wishes to make an agreement with his wife that she shall ask no questions of him. Often his attitude toward marriage is that it should be there for him at home but it should not be an encumbrance. He wants to be free to forget about it when he wants to focus elsewhere. This is a great shock to a woman when she discovers this attitude in her man. Marriage is a total commitment for a woman; it is not so all encompassing
Dr. Jung described the shadow elements in a personality as those repressed or unlived sides of a person’s total potential. Through lack of attention and development, these unlived and repressed qualities remain archaic or turn dark and threatening. These potentialities for good and evil, though repressed, remain in the unconscious, where they gather energy until finally they begin to erupt arbitrarily into our conscious lives,
of a man’s mute yearning for a woman is his need for her light to show him—as well as her—his true nature and godhood. Every woman holds this terrible-wonderful power in her hands.
Terrible things happen to men who are deprived of the presence of women—inner or outer—for usually it is the presence of woman that reminds each man of the best that is in him.
With a few words, a woman can give meaning to a whole day’s struggle and a man will be so grateful. A man knows and wants this; he will edge up to it, initiate little occasions so that a woman can shed some light for him.
The woman is the carrier of growth in most relationships. A man fears
But if a woman wishes to give a most precious gift to a man, if she would truly feed his greatest masculine hunger (a hunger which he will seldom show but which is often there), she will be very feminine when her man is mutely asking for that precious quality.
Falling in love is the experience of looking through that person and seeing the god or goddess who stands behind. No wonder we promptly become blind when we fall in love.
If you can kill the right thing—the old way of adaptation—and not injure yourself, a new energy-filled era will begin.
Whether you are a man or a woman, these dynamics of the masculine and feminine principles are important to remember. Men and women both have feminine/masculine characteristics and must
Masculinity often looks ram-like to a woman when it comes time for her to assimilate a little of that quality into her interior life. Imagine a very feminine woman at the beginning of her life looking at the modern world and knowing that she must make her way
When one has grown strong and wise enough, the warring elements which cost so much suffering and anxiety, will become complementary elements and produce the great work of art which is your own life.
