The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action. — Marion Woodman

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves. — Marion Woodman

When Matisse was asked whether he believed in God, his response was, ‘yes, when I’m working’. — Marion Woodman

Only by discovering and loving the goddess lost within our rejected body can we hear our own authentic voice. — Marion Woodman

To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements. — Marion Woodman

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

It is amazing that our souls––our eternal essences, wIth all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world––are contained wIthin these temporal bodies. — Marion Woodman

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say–yes. — Marion Woodman

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. — Marion Woodman

Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful. — 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 hopeless or brutal or both. — Marion Woodman

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

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

Most of us are dragged toward wholeness. — Marion Woodman

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us. — Marion Woodman

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

S paSt hiStory and Stand alone. — Marion Woodman

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick. — Marion Woodman

Transition begins in forgiveness. — 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

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

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

It takes great courage to break with one’s past history and stand alone. — Marion Woodman

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

This is the beginning of a road whose end is totally unknown and totally known. — Marion Woodman

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

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

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