Clarissa Pinkola Estes quotes

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)
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. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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. View quote
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The soul has no gender. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world. View quote
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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. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Dogs are the magicians of the universe. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open. View quote
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. View quote
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I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body. (Clarissa Pinkola Estes)
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. View quote
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This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants. View quote
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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. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening. View quote
Clarissa Pinkola Estes