This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. Clarissa Pinkola Estes More Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes More Quotes From Clarissa Pinkola Estes Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people. Clarissa Pinkola Estes communitycrazypeople Artfulness is not simple entertainment, Clarissa Pinkola Estes upheavalcreativesimple The soul has no gender. Clarissa Pinkola Estes gendersoul Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots. Clarissa Pinkola Estes clothesfashioncutting The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar. Clarissa Pinkola Estes Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions imbedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds. Clarissa Pinkola Estes dreamheartnight 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes stupidrainrivers 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 Estes butterflynightart Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women. Clarissa Pinkola Estes wallcuttingreal Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community. Clarissa Pinkola Estes medicinecommunitystories There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises. Clarissa Pinkola Estes dreamheartlying When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free. Clarissa Pinkola Estes behaviorbodysoul ...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills. Clarissa Pinkola Estes sufferinghealingpast Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part. Clarissa Pinkola Estes silentmatterway 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes daughtermothertwo Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader. Clarissa Pinkola Estes realwritingsweet Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. Clarissa Pinkola Estes illusioneternityart It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there is in many women a 'hungry' one inside. But rather than hungry to be a certain size, shape, or height, rather than hungry to fit the stereotype; women are hungry for basic regard from the culture surrounding them. The 'hungry' one inside is longing to be treated respectfully, to be accepted and in the very least, to be met without stereotyping. Clarissa Pinkola Estes healthystronghealing Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till the next time, forgive but give no more chances it’s a whole new game if there is another incident. You can give one more chance, give several more chances, give many chances, give chances only if. You can forgive part, all, or half of the offense. You can devise a blanket of forgiveness. You decide Clarissa Pinkola Estes halfgamesgiving I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body. Clarissa Pinkola Estes extravagantbuiltbody
