Why Women Still 'Can’t Have It All' ... or Can We? It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change. EIGHTEEN MONTHS into my job as the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department, a foreign-policy dream job that traces its origins back to George … [Read more...]
Why Women Still ‘Can’t Have It All’ … or Can We?
Laotzu , Staying in the Flow with Tao
Let life open like a flower and then fall. Force is not the way at all . . . Those who would take over the world And shape it to their will Never, I notice, succeed. . . The best general does not plunge headlong Nor is the best soldier a fellow hot to fight. The greatest victor wins without a battle. This teacher's emphasis is ever on living fully an ordinary life, and of being of service to one's neighbors. "A person at his best, like water, Serves as he … [Read more...]
The YIN MIND: ‘Beyond Christianity, Religiosity and Academia . . . to Spirituality’
The YIN MIND ___________________________________________ The Vatican has a vast and an ancient library. There is only one person who can remove a book from that library: The Pope. One such Pope, Pope Leo X (1513 – 1521) said: “How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us.” There is a book, The Lost Wisdom of the Ancient Masters by Professor Hilton Hotema. Professor Hotema said: … [Read more...]