Marion Woodman Short Quotes

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It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

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To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

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Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.

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Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

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An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

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Do you know whose colors these are? [...] These are the colors of the whore of Babylon. Red and purple.

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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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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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Thank you, dear Sophia. From every cell in my broken body, my radiant body, I thank you. I am alive. I am free... to live... to die.

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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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Her [an anorexic's] natural bent is towards perfection, purification, aesthetics. Her ideal is to remove all the superficial veils until only essence is left.

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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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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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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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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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