Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes - Page 3

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• Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

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  Love You, Creative, World

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• When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.

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  Blessing, Advice, Be Kind

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• When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.

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  Home, Eye, Focus

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• How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

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  Forgiveness, Sorry, Sorrow

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• There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

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  Despair, Discouraged, Chairs

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• To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

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  Hero, Littles, Pleasure

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• In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.

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  Children, Heart, Dark

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• When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

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  Visionaries, Oracles, World

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking.

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  Strong, Feelings, Answers

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• Be wild; that is how to clear the river.

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  Rivers, Rubies, Clear

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• Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

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  Teacher, Light, Lovers

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• It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

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  Giving Up, Justice, Earth

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• When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into living a most unnatural life- a life that is self-blinding.. . without innovation. The world-wide issue for women is that under such conditions they are not only silenced, they are put to sleep. Their concerns, their viewpoints, their own truths are vaporized.

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  Sleep, Self, Issues

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• Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

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  World

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• When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.

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  Memories, Names, Culture

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• Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one.

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  Long Ago, Two, Oneness

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• It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

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  Psychics, Doe, Lost

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• 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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  Mean, Embrace, Love Means

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• To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

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  Strength, Strong, Mean

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• I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively.

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  Mean, Doors, Order

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• It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. To live this way is a cycle in itself, one meant to go on, go on, go on.

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  Heart, Fire, Sea

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• Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

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  Art, Block, Stupid

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• A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.

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  Real, Hands, Soul

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• Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.

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  Dream, Night, Hair

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• The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

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  Dream, Passion, Language

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