Marion Woodman Quotes
Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.
At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.
But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.
An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.
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.
Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.
To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.
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.
If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.
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.
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.
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.
It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.
Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.
