Clarissa Pinkola Est S Quotes
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Literature“In a single human being there are many other beings, all with their own values, motives, and devices Rather than corrupt her natural beauty, our work is to build for all these beings a wildish countryside wherein the artists among them can make, lovers love, the healers heal.”
Clarissa Pinkola EstésQuotes
Literature“From the time we are born there is a wildish urge within us that desires our souls lead our lives, for the ego can only understand just so much. Imagine the ego on a permanent and relatively short leash; it can only go so far into the mysteries of life and spirit.”
Clarissa Pinkola EstésQuotes
Literature“I learned about the sacred art of self-decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.”
Clarissa Pinkola EstésQuotes
Literature“ 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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Literature“ Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events, half understood and half remembered... ”
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Literature“ The best land to plant and grow something new again is rock bottom. In that sense, hitting rock bottom, although extremely painful, is also the ground to sow new life on. ”
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Literature“ 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 ”
Clarissa Pinkola EstésQuotes
Literature“ 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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Literature“ Stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills. ”
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Literature“ I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories... water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ”
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Literature“ Every woman has felt like the ugly duckling at some point in her life. ”
Clarissa Pinkola EstésQuotes
Literature“ If we live as we breathe, taking, and releasing, we cannot make mistakes. ”
Clarissa Pinkola EstésQuotes
Literature“ 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. ”
Clarissa Pinkola EstésQuotes
Literature“ 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. ”
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Literature“ The things that women reclaim are often their own voice, their own values, their imagination, their clairvoyance, their stories, their ancient memories. If we go for the deeper, and the darker, and the less known we will touch the bones. ”
Clarissa Pinkola EstésQuotes
Literature“ Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin. ”
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