Clarissa Pinkola Estés Quotes

What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown. It is this force in its insistence in its loyalty to us in its love of us in its most often mysterious ways that is far greater far more majestic and far more ancient than any heretofore ever known.

I was an aesthete rather than an athlete, and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer.

Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one.20 To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily.

Night is when we are closer to ourselves, closer to essential ideas and feelings that do not register so much during daylight hours.

General Wolf Rules For Life
1. Eat
2. Rest
3. Rove in between
4. Render loyalty
5. Love the children
6. Cavil in the moonlight
7. Tune your ears
8. Attend to the bones
9. Make love
10.

If the woman were able to sit herself down and peer into her own heart, she would see there a need to have her talents, her gifts, and her limitations re­ spectfully acknowledged and accepted. So, to begin healing, stop kid­ ding yourself that a little feel-good of the wrong sort will take care of a broken leg. 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.

The word pneuma (breath) shares its origins with the word psyche; they are both considered words for soul. So when there is song in a tale or mythos, we know that the gods are being called upon to breathe their wisdom and power into the matter at hand. We know then that the forces are at work in the spirit world, busy crafting soul.

When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she sleeps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.

"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."

It is not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

Unfurl the bandages, ready the medicine. Let us return now, wild women howling, laughing, singing up The One who loves us.

The difference between comfort and nurture is this: if you have a plant that is sick because you keep it in a dark closet, and you say soothing words to it, that is comfort.If you take out of the closet and put in the sun, give it something to drink, and then talk to it, that is nurture

The things that women reclaim are often their own voice, their own values, their imagination, their clairvoyance, their stories, their ancient memories. If we go for the deeper, and the darker, and the less known we will touch the bones.

يلجأ الناس إلى التأمل للوصول إلى الحالة النفسية السوية، ومن أجل هذا يخضعون للعلاج النفسي والتحليل، وهذا هو السبب الذي من أجلة يحلل الناس أحلامهم ويصنعون الفن، ولهذا يفتحون (الكوتشينة) ويقرأون (الفنجان)، يرقصون، يقرعون الطبول، يصنعون المسرح، يصلون القصيدة ويشعلون الصلاة. لهذا السبب نفعل كل الأشياء التي نفعلها. إنه القيام بتجميع كل العظام من بعضها، ثم ينبغي أن نجلس إلى جوار النار ونفكر في أية أغنية تلك التي سوف نستخدمها في طقوس الغناء فوق العظام، أية ترنيمة للخلق، أية ترنيمة لإعادة الخلق، وسوف تُشكِّل الحقائق التي نتذكرها كيان الأغنية.

Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered...