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1. "The soul has no gender." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

2. "When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

3. "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

4. "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." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

5. "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

6. "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

7. "This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

8. "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

9. "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." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

10. "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." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

11. "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." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

12. "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

13. "Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

14. "I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

15. "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 Estés

16. "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 Estés

17. "It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires" ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

18. "Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

19. "While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has various sicknesses, then all families within that culture will have to struggle with the same malaises. There is a saying cultura cura, culture cures. If the culture is a healer, the families learn how to heal; they will struggle less, be more reparative, far less wounding, far more graceful and loving. In a culture where the predator rules, all new life needing to be born, all old life needing to be gone, is unable to move and the soul-lives of its citizenry are frozen with both fear and spiritual famine." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

20. "Having a lover/friend who regards you as a living growing criatura, being, just as much as the tree from the ground, or a ficus in the house, or a rose garden out in the side yard... having a lover and friends who look at you as a true living breathing entity, one that is human but made of very fine and moist and magical things as well... a lover and friends who support the ciatura in you... these are the people you are looking for. They will be the friends of your soul for life. Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

21. "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. Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the choice of mates and lovers. A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

22. "Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. 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 Estés

23. "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." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

24. "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 Estés

25. "To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

26. "A PrayerRefuse to fall downIf you cannot refuse to fall down,refuse to stay down.If you cannot refuse to stay down,lift your heart toward heaven,and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down.You may be kept from rising.But no one can keep you from lifting your hearttoward heavenonly you.It is in the middle of miserythat so much becomes clear.The one who says nothing goodcame of this, is not yet listening." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

27. "Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

28. "A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

29. "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 Estés

30. "Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

31. "This explosive psychological 'sneaking' occurs when a woman suppresses large parts of self into the shadows of the psyche. In the view of analytical psychology, the repression of both negative and positive instincts, urges, and feelings into the unconscious causes them to inhabit a shadow realm. While the ego and superego attempt to continue to censor the shadow impulses, the very pressure that repression causes is rather like a bubble in the sidewall of a tire. Eventually, as the tire revolves and heats up, the pressure behind the bubble intensifies, causing it to explode outward, releasing all the inner content. The shadow acts similarlyY We find that by opening the door to the shadow realm a little, and letting out various elements a few at a time, relating to them, finding use for them, negotiating, we can reduce being surprised by shadow sneak attacks and unexpected explosions." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

32. "Remember, if logic were all there really was to the world, then surely all men would ride sidesaddle" ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

33. "¿Qué significa vivir con la experiencia de una guerra y los recuerdos de la misma dentro de uno? Significa vivir en dos mundos. Uno de ellos busca la esperanza mientras el otro se siente desesperanzado. Uno busca algún sentido a lo sucedido mientras el otro está convencido de que el único sentido de la vida es que la vida carece por completo de sentido." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

34. "Her kadin,genis etekli elbiseler giyinmis bir halde sonsuz yesil ve sehvetli ormanin içine atini sürmek ister." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

35. "Si uno es pobre y carece de árboles, es la persona más necesitada del mundo. Si uno es pobre y tiene árboles, es inmensamente rico en algo que el dinero no puede comprar." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

36. "As vezes aquele que está fugindo da natureza da vida-morte-vida insiste empensar que o amor é apenas uma dádiva. No entanto, o amor em sua plenitude é uma série de mortes e de renascimentos. Deixamos uma fase, um aspecto do amor, eentramos em outra. A paixão morre e volta. A dor é espantada para longe e vem à tona mais adiante. Amar significa abraçar e ao mesmo tempo suportar inúmeros finais e inúmeros recomeços — todos no mesmo relacionamento." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

37. "One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

38. "Vive nel verde che sbuca tra la neve, vive negli steli fruscianti del morente grano d'autunno, vive dove i morti vengono per un bacio, e i vivi inviano loro preghiere. Vive nel luogo in cui si fa il linguaggio. Vive di poesia e percussione e canto. Vive di quarti di tono e di note di passaggio, e in una cantata, in una sestina, nei blues. E' l'attimo che precede l'ispirazione che ci abbaglia. Vive in un luogo lontano che si apre un varco verso il nostro mondo." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

39. "Ne zaman bir öykü anlatilsa gece olur. Nerede oturulursa oturulsun, zaman ve mevsim ne olursa olsun, masal anlatmak saçaklardan yildizli bir gökyüzünün ve beyaz bir ayin çikip süzülmesine ve dinleyenlerin kafalarinin üstünde asili durmasina neden olur. Kimi zaman, masalin sonuna dogru oda safakla dolar, kimi zaman arkada bir yildiz parçasi kalir, kimi zaman da firtinali gökyüzünden bir paçavra parçasi. Ve arkada kalan her ne olursa olsun, bu sey çalismak için, ruh-yapiminda kullanmak için bir armagandir." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

40. "Aunque creamos estar siguiendo el mapa correcto, Dios decide de pronto levantar el camino y colocarnos en otro lugar" ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

41. "In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

42. "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 Estés

43. "we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

44. "When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

45. "The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

46. "...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

47. "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 Estés

48. "Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent." ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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