Top 42 Marion Woodman Quotes
#1. At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.
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#2. It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.
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#3. The more you work with your dreams and your unconscious, and honor it, the more you understand it and it understands you. When you develop a relationship with your psyche this way, you begin to carry that energy into life and your relationships.
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#4. The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.
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#5. There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.
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#6. The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.
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#7. Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.
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#9. Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all.
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#10. Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.
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#11. The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself.
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#12. An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.
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#13. This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.
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#14. Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.
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#15. Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.
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#16. My soul is the bridge between spirit and body and, as such, is a uniter of opposites. Without soul at center, I would either transcend into spirit or become mired in matter.
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#17. A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
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#18. Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.
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#19. But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.
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#20. Often the wisdom of the body Clarifies the despair of the spirit.
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#21. The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.
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#22. The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.
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#24. A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.
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#25. Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.
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#26. If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning ... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.
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#27. Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.
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#28. I use the word mystery,rather than magic.
I love magic.
something magic was always going to happen. When it did, it never did anything but land me in trouble.
MYSTERY is the depth of the sacred.
Page 33 coming home to my self
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#29. What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.
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#30. Kill the imagination and you kill the soul. Kill the soul and you're left with a listless, apathetic creature who can become hopeless or brutal or both.
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#31. The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.
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#32. We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.
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#33. The light of the sacred prostitute penetrates to the heart of this darkness ... she is the consecrated priestess, in the temple, spiritually receptive to the feminine power flowing through her from the Goddess, and at the same time joyously aware of the beauty and passion in her human body.
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#34. If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.
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#35. Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.
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#36. To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.
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#37. The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.
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#38. A flower won't open if I yell at it and say Bloom!
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#39. Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.
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#40. You think of yourself
light, fast, free
free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body, you are in control, addicted to the light that keeps you out of body. You're a swan maiden, addicted to wings, addicted to spirit. You refused to eat in order to fly.
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#41. To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.
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#42. It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world - are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition ...
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