The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit. Clarissa Pinkola Estes More Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes More Quotes From Clarissa Pinkola Estes In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again. Clarissa Pinkola Estes medicinefeel-bettermissing So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones. Clarissa Pinkola Estes soulfleshremember In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails. Clarissa Pinkola Estes positive-thinkingattitudefall Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world. Clarissa Pinkola Estes creativelove-youworld To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being. Clarissa Pinkola Estes creativitypassionmean Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered. Clarissa Pinkola Estes dreamhairnight The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope. Clarissa Pinkola Estes painlifefall 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes issuesselfsleep To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship. Clarissa Pinkola Estes love-meansembracemean It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate. Clarissa Pinkola Estes reluctancefailurecauses The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry. Clarissa Pinkola Estes passionlanguagedream Be wild; that is how to clear the river. Clarissa Pinkola Estes clearrubiesrivers 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes taskscompassionbusiness Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. Clarissa Pinkola Estes rocksinspirationrivers Dogs are the magicians of the universe. Clarissa Pinkola Estes magicianuniversedog 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes creativitysolitudecreative If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more. Clarissa Pinkola Estes rocksfocusideas Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors. Clarissa Pinkola Estes inquiringmatesendurance 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes realsoulhands 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes discouragedchairsdespair
