A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that living authentically involves shedding distractions and uncovering our true selves.
Marion Woodman's quote emphasizes the transformative journey of life where one must let go of illusions and irrelevant aspects to uncover their genuine self. It speaks to the idea that through experiences and self-discovery, individuals become stronger and more capable of facing the truth of who they are, ultimately leading to a deeper understanding of their essence.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth, one might use this quote to illustrate the importance of authenticity.
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
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.
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.
Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form.
None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.
Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.
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