I cannot grow in the life of the spirit until I grow to love my body.
This same restless longing appeared repeatedly in the statements of women in the experiment.
“I know if I were right with God, I would be right with my body.”
“I cannot grow in the life of the spirit until I grow to love my body.”
The inner connection between religious and physical food is obvious.
What they long for is “their daily bread,” but they take the symbol concretely.
Each one believes that physical thinness can somehow lead to spiritual fatness.
What they fail to realize is that there is a spirit which longs to be incarnated in their bodies, and that relationship to that spirit can bring them to an awareness of their own feminine Being.
Only when they surrender to that spirit will their body reflect that totality.
Instead of seeking the spirit outside, they must learn to hear the voice of their own abandoned Self, and thus reconnect with their own inner mystery.
Only by that route can they come to the feeling of belonging to life and sense the reality for which they yearn they fail to realize is that there is a spirit which longs to be incarnated in their bodies, and that relationship to that spirit can bring them to an awareness of their own feminine Being.
Only when they surrender to that spirit will their body reflect that totality.
Instead of seeking the spirit outside, they must learn to hear the voice of their own abandoned Self, and thus reconnect with their own inner mystery.
Only by that route can they come to the feeling of belonging to life and sense the reality for which they yearn. ~Marion Woodman, The Owl was a Baker’s Daughter, Page 99-100
