"Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other."
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"True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale."
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"It seems inevitable that you'd end up getting someone like Trump telling us all how important and amazing he is."
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"Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are."
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"Don't walk in with a colonial mindset and say, "We know your problem and we're going to fix it.""
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"Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience."
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"What may be on the surface looks like one thing but it's often a much larger problem."
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"Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways."
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"Women have a connection to life force and nurturing. They have a connection that men don't have. It doesn't mean one's better or more important, it's just a difference."
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"I've seen women essentially martyr themselves for the good of the future and the good of their children and, again, the good of love. That shouldn't be happening but it shows you the strength and power of it, and the fact that it will take over a woman's sense of her own survival. Men have taken advantage of that for hundreds and probably thousands of years."
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"Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over."
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"All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play."
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"It's very powerful if you can home in on, and really trust, intuition and its strength. Most men have shunned that in so many ways that they end up squaring off the circle of life."
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"Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family."
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"Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change."
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"Start from the bottom up."
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"The more history I read, the more everything seems to point to the same thing."
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"Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important."
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"My gut sense is there's something necessary going on and if I'm too fearful or angry, I feel like I'm feeding it."
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"Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way."
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