Marion Woodman

“I yearned for lightness; I still yearn for lightness. Lightness is freedom -- freedom from the heaviness of too much stuff, too…

— Marion Woodman

To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

— Marion Woodman

Most of us are dragged toward wholeness.

— Marion Woodman

Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to…

— Marion Woodman

Transition begins in forgiveness.

— Marion Woodman

My soul is the bridge between spirit and body and, as such, is a uniter of opposites. Without soul at center, I…

— Marion Woodman

Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my…

— Marion Woodman

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a…

— Marion Woodman

The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a…

— Marion Woodman

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow…

— Marion Woodman

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you…

— Marion Woodman

“This is the beginning of a road whose end is totally unknown and totally known.”

— Marion Woodman

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot…

— Marion Woodman

Soul, to me, means “embodied essence,” when we experience ourselves and others in our full humanity - part animal, part divine. Healing…

— Marion Woodman

There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It…

— Marion Woodman

“Kill the imagination and you kill the soul. Kill the soul and you're left with a listless, apathetic creature who can become…

— Marion Woodman

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

— Marion Woodman

“You think of yourself -- light, fast, free -- free of earth, free of bondage to your body. In your 'perfect' body,…

— Marion Woodman

It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared…

— Marion Woodman

For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness.…

— Marion Woodman

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.

— Marion Woodman

Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values…

— Marion Woodman

What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment…

— Marion Woodman

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

— Marion Woodman

It is amazing that our souls - our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world…

— Marion Woodman