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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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• 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.

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  Thinking, Important, Watches

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• 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.

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  Real, Museums, Self

  "The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter". Book by Marion Woodman, 1980.

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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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  Musical, Body, Able

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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 light of the sacred prostitute penetrates to the heart of this darkness. . . . she is the consecrated priestess, in the temple, spiritually receptive to the feminine power flowing through her from the Goddess, and at the same time joyously aware of the beauty and passion in her human body.

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  Passion, Heart, Light

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

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  Meaningful, Suffering, May

  Marion Woodman (1980). “The Owl was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa and the Repressed Feminine : a Psychological Study”, p.7, Inner City Books

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• A flower won't open if I yell at it and say “Bloom!

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  Flower, Ifs

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• Transition begins in forgiveness.

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  Transition

  Marion Woodman (2001). “Bone: Dying into Life”, p.102, Penguin

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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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  Dream, Essence, Soul

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• 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

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  Mother, Spiritual, Jobs

  "Worshipping Illusions". The Parabola Interview, parabola.org. June 22, 2017.

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• 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.

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  Dream, Honor, Energy

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

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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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  Heart, Understanding, Pace

  Marion Woodman (2001). “Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul”, p.231, Conari Press

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• Often the wisdom of the body Clarifies the despair of the spirit.

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  Despair, Body, Spirit

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

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  Heart, Sick, Body

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

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• The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

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  Sweet, Longing, Sweetness

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

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• To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

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  Agreement, Contracts, Love Unconditionally

  "Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1997.

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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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  Love, Sunset, Autumn

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

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• 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.

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  Analysis, Moments, Week

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• 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.

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  Father, Jealous, Men

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

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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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  Mother, Insane, Machines

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

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• Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.

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  Mother, Mean, Eating Disorder

  "Addiction to Perfection". Book by Marion Woodman, 1982.

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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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  Body, May, Able

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

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• The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first

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  Healing, Firsts, Healer

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• 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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