Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
Top 77 wise famous quotes and sayings by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Clarissa Pinkola Estes Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Clarissa Pinkola Estes on Wise Famous Quotes.
The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.
Mystery can be overwhelming. Touching Divinity can seem like all one's atoms composing mind and body have suddenly been rearranged.
It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
Wild Women: "They know instinctively when things must die and when things must live; they know how to walk away, they know how to stay.
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.
At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.
We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one's worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.
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.
When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
She must be willing to feel anxious sometimes, otherwise she might as well have stayed in the nest. Sometimes
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.
Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman ... have faith. There is yet time.
There is an integrity to story that comes from a real life lived in it. A story is clearly illumined from being raised up in it. In
We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.
Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.
The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.
To take the world into one's arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of wildish spirit.
So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.
Remember, if logic were all there really was to the world, then surely all men would ride sidesaddle
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere ... Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women.
Night is when we are closer to ourselves, closer to essential ideas and feelings that do not register so much during daylight hours.
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.
Stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.
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.
I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.
Artfulness is not simple entertainment,
especially during upheaval,
unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
especially during upheaval,
unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered ...
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader.
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.
Unfurl the bandages, ready the medicine. Let us return now, wild women howling, laughing, singing up The One who loves us.
A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.