Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to a… - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

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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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من غير الممكن معالجة قضايا الروح عند المرأة بأن ننحت لها هيئة تتلاءم مع الشكل الذي تحدده بعض الثقافات غير الواعية, كما أنه ليس بمقدورنا أن نقولبها في شكل أكثر عقلانية يرضى عنه هؤلاء الذين يزعمون أنهم وحدهم حملة لواء الواعي. لا, من غير الممكن؛ لأن ذلك هو بالفعل ما حدا بالملايين من النساء اللواتي بدأن كقوى طبيعية مؤثرة أن يصبحن كالغرباء في ركب الحضارة, بل ينبغي أن يكون الهدف هو استعادة وإنقاذ الشكل الطبيعي الجميل لروح المرأة.

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