The Woman’s Mantra Has Come to Be: “But I Can’t”

The woman’s mantra has come to be: “But I can’t.”

I can’t because of a “them.”

And to her, I would say: It is time to wake from the trance of powerlessness that would have you believe that anyone other than you could throw the switch. This singular spell has done more to feed what we would call evil, the forces of separation and competition, than any other belief.

Progressing up a ladder that is both broken and not yours is not progress but rather regress. When women took the short cut, when we sold out our deep storehouses of wisdom for the quick fix comforts of conforming to masculine values of careers and material wealth. When we opted into their smaller, finite world rather than drawing them into the deeper vision, understanding, meaning, and most importantly value system of ours. when we bartered soul for material gain, we not only sold ourselves out but we sold men out and the hope that they would ever be given eyes to see the sacred world of soul that is our jurisdiction.

If we are angry that men are entitled, dismissive, deaf, we can ask ourselves, “Who did we think would train them how to see and hear?” I have heard plenty about the burden of woman, that it is not our responsibility, that we are saddled with emotional exhaustion.