What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.
Eve EnslerIf you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.
Eve EnslerThere is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?
Eve EnslerWell, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasnโt killed our hearts. Itโs killed menโs hearts. Itโs silenced them, itโs cut them off.
Eve EnslerIf you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because youโll be feeling what theyโre feeling. If youโre separated, itโs not a hard thing to do at all.
Eve EnslerI literally would go to see Tina Turner any opportunity I had because being in the presence of Tina Turner was like being in the presence of transformative energy, and feminist transformative energy. I remember thinking to myself, whatever this is, it's revolution. Whatever this is, it's change embodied in a woman.
Eve Ensler