Lisa Ray Instagram – Repost from @nimamoru using @RepostRegramApp – Truth be told… “The engrained patriarchal patterning has tried to suppress, own, control, or ignore the feminine for centuries. Man flees from intimacy—whether through competitive career ambition, extreme gym workouts, warfare, absurd conquest missions like the desire to conquer Mt Everest, the desire to leave a legacy of glory, all the way to space travel and the male obsession with sending tall buildings into the sky and (phallic) objects into outer space. Or the attempt to send his consciousness into space through spiritual seeking of alternate states. Man needs to give up the patriarchal quest to penetrate reality and learn to receive it instead. Only then he will truly penetrate/understand reality. Learning to receive will create your true legacy for humanity. No one cares what you put into orbit, but we do care how tenderly you can touch the earth. And because the patriarchal method has been promoted as the ideal, women too defend these roles of domination and control, whether for themselves or for men, and also need to surrender to the primacy of intimacy with the feminine.” Mark Whitwell, God and Sex, Now We Get Both, from the chapter: Death is Not the Enemy