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..Feminine energy is powerful because it is pure presence -- gentle yet firm. It is an energy that gives warmth, comfort, and spirit simply by its presence. It receives rather than takes. It invites rather than demands. It unfolds rather than controls. It empowers rather than overpowers. It finds itself in being rather than in doing. Feminine energy shows her best face in leisure. She doesn't take time. She has time. She has time to be. The world is starving for this energy. It is part of the fire Christ came to cast on the earth - a slow flame that burns from within and gradually transforms what it touches, precisely because it touches rather than clutches.
—Sister Macrina Wiederkehr, from A Tree Full of Angels, Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary
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..Feminine energy is powerful because it is pure presence -- gentle yet firm. It is an energy that gives warmth, comfort, and spirit simply by its presence. It receives rather than takes. It invites rather than demands. It unfolds rather than controls. It empowers rather than overpowers. It finds itself in being rather than in doing. Feminine energy shows her best face in leisure. She doesn't take time. She has time. She has time to be. The world is starving for this energy. It is part of the fire Christ came to cast on the earth - a slow flame that burns from within and gradually transforms what it touches, precisely because it touches rather than clutches.
—Sister Macrina Wiederkehr, from A Tree Full of Angels, Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary