True masculine power happens when courage, integrity, vulnerability, compassion, awareness, and the capacity to take strong action are all functioning together. Such power is potent but not aggressive, challenging but not shaming, grounded but not rigid, forceful but not pushy.
I sometimes tell men who are venturing into the work of accessing (or more deeply accessing) their true power that the journey they’re beginning is one that requires a courage no less than that of real battle, and that calls forth from them a warrior-hood as rooted in tenderness and relational openness as it is in facing and integrating one’s monsters and shadow-places.
This is a true hero’s journey of healing and awakening, connecting the dots of past and present emotionally as well as intellectually, encountering all that we’ve been and are. Along the way, we cultivate an intimacy with everything that we are — high and low, dark and light, masculine and feminine, dying and undying — for the benefit of one and all. This is the primal odyssey pulsing in every man’s marrow, whether he embarks on it or not.”
~ Robert Augustus Masters, To Be A Man
I sometimes tell men who are venturing into the work of accessing (or more deeply accessing) their true power that the journey they’re beginning is one that requires a courage no less than that of real battle, and that calls forth from them a warrior-hood as rooted in tenderness and relational openness as it is in facing and integrating one’s monsters and shadow-places.
This is a true hero’s journey of healing and awakening, connecting the dots of past and present emotionally as well as intellectually, encountering all that we’ve been and are. Along the way, we cultivate an intimacy with everything that we are — high and low, dark and light, masculine and feminine, dying and undying — for the benefit of one and all. This is the primal odyssey pulsing in every man’s marrow, whether he embarks on it or not.”
~ Robert Augustus Masters, To Be A Man
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