It is good to have many personae, to make collections, sew up several, collect them as we go along in life. As we become older, with such a collectio… - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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It is good to have many personae, to make collections, sew up several, collect them as we go along in life. As we become older, with such a collection at our behest, we find we can portray any aspect of self most anytime we wish. However, at some point, most particularly as one grows into past mid-life and on into old age, one's personas shift and meld in mysterious ways. Eventually, there is a kind of 'meltdown', a loss of personae complete, thereby revealing what would, in its greatest light, be called 'the true self.

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About Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born January 27, 1945) is a first-generation American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.

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"إذن ما هي "المرأة الوحشية"؟ من وجهةنظر علم النفس المبدئية وفي عرف الروائيين, هي روح الأنثى, بل أكثر من ذلك, هي مصدر الأنوثة, إنها كل ما هو فطري في كلا العالمين الظاهر والباطن، إنها الأساس، فنحن جميعاً نأخذ منها الخلية النشطة التي تحوي كل الغرائز والمعارف التي نحتاج إليها في رحلة الحياة."

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.

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