Like my kith and kin before me, I swagger-staggered in high heels, and I wore a dress and a hat to church. But my fabulous tail often fell below my h… - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"وهناك طريق آخر لتقوية الاتصال والرابطة مع الغريزة, وهو ألا تسمحي لأي شخص أن يقمع طاقتك الحيوية... التي هي اعتقاداتك, أفكارك، مثلك العليا، قيمك، افتراضاتك، أهدافك. وفي هذا العالم يوجد أقل القليل من "صح/خطأ" أو "طيب/شرير", إلا أنه يوجد فيه "مفيد" و "غير مفيد". وهناك أيضاً أشياء تكون أحياناً مدمرة وبالمثل أشياء مولدة. ولكن _كما تعلمين_ الحديقة ينبغي تقليبها في الخريف من أجل إعدادها للربيع. فهي لا تزهر طوال الوقت. ولكن اجعلي دوراتك الداخلية هي التي تملي المنحنيات الحلزونية الصاعدة والهابطة لحياتك, ولا تتركي تحديدها لشخص آخر من خارج نفسك."

Another way to strengthen connection to intuition is to refuse to allow anyone to repress your vivid energies... that means your opinions, your thoughts, your ideas, your values, your morals, your ideals. There is very little right/wrong or good/bad in this world. There is, however, use and not useful.

The idea in our culture of body solely as sculpture is wrong. Body is not marble. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to protect, contain, support and fire the spirit and soul within it, to be a repository for memory, to fill us with feeling - that is the supreme psychic nourishment. It is to lift us and propel us, to fill us with feeling to prove that we exist, that we are here, to give us grounding, heft, weight. It is wrong to think of it as a place we leave in order to soar to the spirit. The body is the launcher of those experiences. Without body there would be no sensations of crossing thresholds, there would be no sense of lifting, no sense of height, weightlessness. All that comes from the body. The body is the rocket launcher. In its nose capsule, the soul looks out the window into the mysterious starry night and is dazzled.