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It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.
Marion Woodman
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Marion Woodman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1928
Born: August 15
Died: 2018
Died: July 9
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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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Often the wisdom of the body Clarifies the despair of the spirit.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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s past history and stand alone.
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A flower won't open if I yell at it and say “Bloom!
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