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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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Strong, Essence, Naked

Marion Woodman (2001). “Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul”, p.93, Conari Press

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Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.

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Moving, Transcending

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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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Hard Work, Talking, Voice

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Soul, to me, means “embodied essence,” when we experience ourselves and others in our full humanity - part animal, part divine. Healing comes through embodiment of the soul. The soul in matter is what I think the feminine side of God is all about... The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality.

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Healing, Mean, Animal

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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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Grief, Joy, Body

Marion Woodman (2001). “Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul”, p.49, Conari Press

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Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of mess we have made of it, we can somehow see the totality of who we are and recognize how our blunderings are related. We can own what we did and value who we are, not because of the outcome but because of the soul story that propelled us.

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Writing, Heart, Soul

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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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Surrender, Vulnerability, Wounds

Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be
released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.

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Light, Expression, Breathing

"The Pregnant Virgin". Book by Marion Woodman, 1985.

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Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

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Inspirational, Music, Dream

"Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’". Interview with Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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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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Healing, People, Firsts

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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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Love You, Passion, Broken

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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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Addiction, Soul, Trying

Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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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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One Day, Enough, Ifs

Marion Woodman (1982). “Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride : a Psychological Study”

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Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.

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Children, Real, Flower

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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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Essence, Burning, Veils

Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. 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.

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Fear, Future, Healing

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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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Art, Creativity, Creative

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

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Love Is, Perfection, Humanity

1982 Addition to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride.

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

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Courage, Past, Stand Alone

Marion Woodman (1982). “Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride : a Psychological Study”

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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.

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Fear, Different, Blather

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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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Opposites, Bridges, Soul

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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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Philosophy, Cat, Order

Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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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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Inspiration, Addiction, Understanding

Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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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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Pride, Mass Destruction, Ego

"Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1996.

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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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Inspirational, Trying, Looks

Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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