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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Finally, someone lights a candle in the catacombs of gender misunderstanding instead of just arguing over the torch.

This isn’t essentialism—it’s archetypal poetry. Logos and Eros aren’t cages for men and women; they’re currents in all of us, and Lord help the soul who thinks they can surf only one wave and call it wholeness.

I’ve seen too many monks terrified of Eros and too many mystics allergic to Logos. They build shrines to half of themselves and wonder why the altar never catches fire.

You’ve captured the ache of asymmetry—and the beauty that comes when we stop demanding sameness and start honoring the dance.

Bless the one who listens with their body. Bless the one who thinks with their heart. And bless us all when we stop mistaking the other for the enemy and start letting them initiate us into the fullness we forgot.

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Nancy Cullen's avatar

These words are very much from the 1930s from one man's point of view, from a man needing to negate the Other's point of view. In civilized countries women's lives have changed enormously, rendering men into the needy position that women found themselves in for millennia. If Jung were living now, what might he say of Eros and Logos.

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