Coming Home to Myself Quotes

“There is no growth without real feeling. Children not loved for who they are do not learn how to love themselves. Their growth is an exercise in pleasing others, not in expanding through experience. As adults, they must learn to nurture their own lost child.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“Only by discovering and loving the goddess lost within our rejected body can we hear our own authentic voice.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“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, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“She dreams she is in a glass coffin. From her prison, details have beauty. In her aloneness, she imagines emotions. Her husband is the perfect bridegroom, the trickster, the small boy looking for mother. She is goddess and mirror, siren and friend, femme fatale and sacrificing wife. He is attracted to her girlhood purity, her desire to sacrifice, to serve. At first he may be flattered: she sees him as a god.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body & Soul

“Recognizing the difference between power and love is difficult if we were raised in a home where power was disguised as love.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body & Soul

“A man may be shocked when he sees you've really changed. He thought you'd been scribbling in your journal —a sentimental, little Victorian girl writing in your little book, naive and uninitiated. Suddenly, when you say, Look, this is what I think, he can't believe what's coming out of your mouth. Mother puts up with anything. Mother is unconditional love. When you say, See me as I am, you are no longer mother, no longer his ideal woman. You've changed. He thought you'd been scribbling in your journal.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body & Soul

“Can I really believe I am worth an hour a day? Am I, who have given my life to others, selfish enough to take one hour a day to find myself?”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body & Soul

“Old Mother God, Old Father God— they keep us trapped. And we do give up. We pull the covers over our head, and go back to sleep. Only to dream of old dragons, old alligators, old crocodiles drinking our blood. To dream of cold-eyed lawmakers saying, This is the way it's always been done. It works. It will stay this way. And you will obey.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body & Soul

“How does it feel to say no to the one man to whom you have always said yes? How does it feel when you stand up to him and reject all he has never questioned?”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body & Soul

“never been present, we'll be terrified; our whole life will have been an absence.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“The way to healing an addiction lies in finding a connection between body and soul.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“When we face death, if we've lived life, we'll be ready.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“Intuitive insights are like fish in the water; they flash in the sunlight and then dive deep again, only enticed to the surface again by morsels of conscious attention.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“Birth is the death of the life we have known; death, the birth of the life we have yet to live.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“A dream can often tell us what and where a problem is long before a doctor can diagnose. The dream arises from the instinctual world.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“Linearity does not come naturally to me. It kills my imagination. Nothing happens. No bell rings. No moment of here and now. No moment that says yes. Without these, I am not alive. I prefer the pleasure of the journey through the spiral. Relax. Enjoy the spiral. If you miss something on the first round, don't worry. You might pick it up on the second—or third—or ninth. It doesn't matter. Relax. Timing is everything. If the bell does ring, it will resonate through all the rungs of your spiral. If it doesn't ring, it is the wrong spiral— or the wrong time— or there is no bell.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul

“Healing needs listening with the inner ear, stopping the incessant blather, listening.”
― Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body & Soul