Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

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  Powerful, Dark, Fire

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.

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  Powerful, Struggle, Light

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• Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

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  Powerful, Creativity, Knowing

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• To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

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  Want, Causes, Self Discovery

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• The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.

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  Doors, Self, Sky

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• A Prayer
  Refuse to fall down
  If you cannot refuse to fall down,
  refuse to stay down.
  If you cannot refuse to stay down,
  lift your heart toward heaven,
  and like a hungry beggar,
  ask that it be filled.
  You may be pushed down.
  You may be kept from rising.
  But no one can keep you from lifting your heart
  toward heaven
  only you.
  It is in the middle of misery
  that so much becomes clear.
  The one who says nothing good
  came of this,
  is not yet listening.

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  Prayer, Fall, Heart

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• If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

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  Have Faith, Impossible, Incorrigible

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• Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

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  Self, Maps, Treasure

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• All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

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  Lying, Long, Waiting

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• Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion...Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

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  Self, Ideas, Generosity

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• Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative and preventative. It was used to heal fatigue and to prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice and guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life.

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  Believe, Self, Advice

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• When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she leaps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.

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  Beautiful, Wild Beauty, Wings

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• Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.

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  Deep Love, Ego, Soul

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• All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a "completely ready," there is never a really "right time." As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one's nose, and jumps into the abyss. If this were not so, we would not have needed to create the words heroine, hero, or courage.

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  Hero, Needs, Noses

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• Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

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  Soul, Tasks, World

  "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.

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• With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

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  Dream, Teacher, Passion

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• Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

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  Creativity, Break Through, Ideas

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• Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

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  Heart, Years, Waiting

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• The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.

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  Memories, Cells, Water

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• I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

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  Happiness, Graduation, Hope

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• Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.

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  Medicine, Stronger, Emptiness

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• Suppose... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? .... Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being?

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  Teacher, Strong, Powerful

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• Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

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  Relationship, Letting Go, Running

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• Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

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  Keys, Swings, Doors

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• Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

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  Medicine, Needs, Stories

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