one has achieved absolute
perfection, one's activity will be not be without fault. As long as
there is striving there is lacking. Man strives, therefore he lacks. He
appears cloddish, foolish, unnatural as he moves in unfamiliar ways
traversing new ground.
Woman moves differently. She is consistent, in that she does nothing.
She does not strive, so does not fail. Her lack of embarrassing slips is
not so much evidence that she is on the right path, as it is proof she
is going nowhere.
Man is substance and therefore has something to lose. Understandably he
fears woman, who threatens to deny him any higher striving. In contrast,
woman has nothing to fear from man, as she has no identity to lose. Man
fears re-engulfment by the mother, but woman never left the mothers womb
- never became a self. Man is like water trying to flow uphill, and
woman is the lake below, waiting to catch him should he fall. Woman is
of the earth, is the earth, and extols the earth. Man is a homeless
wanderer, extols the stars, reaches for the stars . . . and looks
foolish when he falls short.
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