“The new earth does not belong to men and it does not belong to women. It is a co-creation that depends on divine feminine and divine masculine both coming into their full respective power.”
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“The future does not belong to men…”
L'avenir n'appartient pas aux hommes...
Speech, December 1967
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2
"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 9, p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3qgRrVlEH4C&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage; originally published in Partisan Review, Vol. 31 No. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA519#v=onepage, ( Fall 1964 http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1964V31N4/HTML/#519/z)
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly (2004), p. xvi
Context: Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 153
“The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.”
Vol. I, par. 216
Collected Papers (1931-1958)
“The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 248
Context: It is not good for ordinary people to say, "I am He." The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.
“The Earth does not want new continents, but new men.”
Ce ne sont pas de nouveaux continents qu'il faut à la terre, mais de nouveaux hommes!
Part I, ch. XVIII: Vanikoro (Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co., 1873, p. 101) (Ch. XIX in the French text)
Tr. Walter James Miller (1966)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
Variant: The planet doesn't need new continents, it needs new men.