To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity. Marion Woodman More Quotes by Marion Woodman More Quotes From Marion Woodman 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. Marion Woodman energyhonordream 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. Marion Woodman voicehard-worktalking It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone. Marion Woodman stand-alonecouragepast The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness. Marion Woodman sweetnesslongingsweet 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. Marion Woodman importantwatchesthinking 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. Marion Woodman wrinklesmotherbaby Transition begins in forgiveness. Marion Woodman transition 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. Marion Woodman autumnsunsetlove If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten Marion Woodman spiritualmotherjobs A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual. Marion Woodman burningveilsessence 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. Marion Woodman essencesouldream 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. Marion Woodman tryinginspirationallooks 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. Marion Woodman soulbridgesopposites Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful. Marion Woodman sufferingmaymeaningful 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. Marion Woodman catphilosophyorder Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick. Marion Woodman sickbodyheart The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born. Marion Woodman realselfmuseums For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness. Instead of clinging to Yahweh, to a rigid set of laws established by a jealous Father-God who will rant in fury if he is disobeyed, they are simply ignoring that ranting, walking away from it, and attempting to put their trust in the irrational. In other words, they are trying to live by the spirit. Marion Woodman jealousmenfather If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding. Marion Woodman paceunderstandingheart 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. Marion Woodman blatherdifferentfear
