Quotes Tagged "outcasts"

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.
Tags: society, outcasts, nature, john-steinbeck, god, cannery-row
The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has nothing to do with gender, it has to do with energy. So feminine energy is what creates and allows anything which is non-manifest, like an idea, to come into form, into being, to be born. All that we experience in the world around us, absolutely everything (is feminine energy). The only way that anything exists is through the feminine force.
Tags: zeena-schreck, women-warriors, vamamarga, unconventional, tantric-buddhism, tantra, taboos, taboo-breaking, subversion, spirituality, spiritual-transformation, spiritual-journey, shapeshifter, shamanism, sexuality, self-examination, self-esteem, revolutionary, outcasts, magic, left-hand-path, jivanmukti, inspiration, initiation, independence, gender-stereotypes, gender, freedom, feminine-principle, female, ecstasy, dissident, bhakti, autonomy, animism
There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunciation.
Tags: zeena-schreck, women-warriors, vamamarga, tantric-buddhism, tantra, taboos, taboo-breaking, subversion, spirituality, spiritual-transformation, spiritual-journey, shapeshifter, shamanism, sexuality, self-examination, self-esteem, revolutionary, outcasts, magic, left-hand-path, jivanmukti, inspiration, initiation, independence, freedom, female, ecstasy, dissident, bhakti, autonomy, animism