Humankind is masculine and feminine, not just man or woman.
Great is he who is in love, since love is the present act of the great creator, the present moment of the becoming and lapsing of the world.
Mighty is he who loves. But whoever distances himself from love, feels himself powerful. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 253.
You seek the feminine in women and the masculine in men.
And thus there are always only men and women.
But where are people?
You, man, should not seek the feminine in women, but seek and recognize it in yourself, as you possess it from the beginning.
It pleases you, however, to play at manliness, because it travels on a well-worn track.
You, woman, should not seek the masculine in men, but assume the masculine in yourself, since you possess it from the beginning.
But it amuses you and is easy to play at femininity, consequently man despises you because he despises his femininity.
But humankind is masculine and feminine, not just man or woman.
You can hardly say of your soul what sex it is.
But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul.
The more manly you are, the more remote from you is what woman really is, since the feminine in yourself is alien and contemptuous. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page 263.
