"I once dreamt I was telling stories and felt someone patting my foot in encouragement. I looked down and saw that I was standing on the shoulders of… - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"I once dreamt I was telling stories and felt someone patting my foot in encouragement. I looked down and saw that I was standing on the shoulders of an older woman who was steadying my ankles and smiling up at me.
I said to her, "no no come stand on my shoulders, For you are old and I am Young."
"No no" she insisted, "this is the way it is supposed to be." I saw that she stood on the shoulders of a woman far older than she, who stood on the shoulders of a woman even older, who stood on the shoulders of a woman in robes, who stood on the shoulders of another soul, who stood on the shoulders..."

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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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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 you 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.

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"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."

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