"Hitherto humanity has praised hardness very much, particularly in man. For centuries man has been a male chauvinist pig! He has praised all that is aggressive, cruel, violent, warlike, and he has condemned all that is feminine.
And because of this a great problem has arisen. The problem is: all that is beautiful is feminine, and if you condemn the feminine then the beautiful disappears from the world. And we have struggled hard to destroy the beautiful. The ugly has dominated the beautiful; the hard has been praised against the soft.
Lao Tzu says, "Don't be hard like a rock, but be soft like water." He calls his way of life the watercourse way. And he says, "Ultimately the soft wins over the hard, the rock will disappear one day. Let the water go on falling on it and the rock will be reduced to sand." Of course, right now you cannot see it happening, it will take time, but the rock cannot destroy the water. For that one needs a little deeper insight - a longer vision, a bigger perspective. And we are very shortsighted. We only see so far. Because of this shortsightedness the rock seems to be worth choosing, not water. Those who have seen reality in its true perspective of eternity, they say something totally different. Let softness be the gift."
-Osho
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