When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.