Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. Clarissa Pinkola Estes More Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes More Quotes From Clarissa Pinkola Estes I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. Clarissa Pinkola Estes hopegraduationhappiness When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. Clarissa Pinkola Estes safedoubtinspirational It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades. Clarissa Pinkola Estes wildernessdisappearunderstanding Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker. Clarissa Pinkola Estes emptinessstrongermedicine The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place. Clarissa Pinkola Estes psychcreatingrunning Suppose... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? .... Are we strong enough to refute the party line and listen deep, listen true to the body as a powerful and holy being? Clarissa Pinkola Estes powerfulstrongteacher Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen. Clarissa Pinkola Estes medicinestoriesneeds The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence. Clarissa Pinkola Estes strongselfwise Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. 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 letting-gorunningrelationship A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. Clarissa Pinkola Estes healthystronggiving Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture. Clarissa Pinkola Estes healingsheepmean If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time Clarissa Pinkola Estes womenworrytime We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught to feel shame for such a desire. We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings. But the shadow of Wild Woman still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights. No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed. Clarissa Pinkola Estes hairnightlong Among wolves, no matter how sick, no matter how cornered, no matter how alone, afraid or weakened, the wolf will continue.She will lope even with a broken leg. She will strenuously outwait, outwit, outrun and outlast whatever is bedeviling her. She will put her all into taking breath after breath. The hallmark of the wild nature is that it goes on. Clarissa Pinkola Estes sickbrokengoes-on 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes forgivenesssorrowsorry All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below. Clarissa Pinkola Estes strongsoulhealing 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. Clarissa Pinkola Estes woodsifshappens My brain has no heart, and my heart has no brain. That's why when I speak my mind, I appear heartless and when I do what's in my heart I seem thoughtless. Clarissa Pinkola Estes mindbrainheart The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of the most important discriminations we can make in this matter is the difference between things that beckon to us and things that call from our souls. Clarissa Pinkola Estes differencesimportantsoul The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained. Clarissa Pinkola Estes formsoulart
