Clarissa Pinkola Estés Quotes

a scar is stronger than skin.

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.

¿Qué es aquello que jamás puede morir?
Es aquella fuerza fiel que nace en nuestro interior, la que es más grande que nosotros, la que atrae la nueva semilla hacia los lugares abiertos, maltrechos y estériles de tal manera que pueda volver a arraigar en nosotros.
Esta fuerza, en su insistencia, en su lealtad a nosotros, en su amor por nosotros, en su acción casi siempre misteriosa, es mucho más grande, mucho más majestuosa y mucho más antigua que cualquier otra fuerza que jamás se haya conocido.

The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.

The wild nature has a vast integrity to it. It means to establish one's territory, to find one's pack, to be in one's body with certainty and pride regardless of the body's gifts and limitations, to speak and act in one's own behalf, to be aware, alert, to draw on the innate feminine powers of intuition and sensing, to come into one's cycles, to find what one belongs to, to rise with dignity, to retain as much consciousness as possible.

I have to say that a man can never know who he is, or a woman cannot know who she is, until she has poured herself through the sieve that is her mother and poured herself through the sieve that is her father and come to understand through both.

I’ll tell you right now, 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.

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, and inspiratrice, and intuitive, a maker, a creator, and inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer worlds.

Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one’s own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us.

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. These intuitive powers were given to your soul at birth.

For a wild child born into a rigid community, the usual outcome is to experience the ignominy of being shunned. Shunning treats the victim as if she does not exist. It withdraws spiritual concern, love, and other psychic necessities from that person. The idea is to force her to conform, or else kill her spirituality and/or to drive her from the village to languish and die in the outback