The feral woman is usually extremely hungry for something soulful.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés; Women Who Run With the Wolves
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She can still hear whispers of the wild God in her blood.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Who Run with Wolves
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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.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will develop the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid to investigate the worst.
The naive woman tacitly agrees to remain "not knowing." Women who are gullible or those with injured instincts still, like flowers, turn in the direction of whatever sun is offered.
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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If you have attempted to fit whatever mold and failed to do so, you are probably lucky. You may be an exile of some sort, but you have sheltered your soul.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
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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.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, “Women Who Run With The Wolves”.
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Art is important for it commemorates the seasons of the soul.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one’s own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us.
~Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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"She encourages to remain multi lingual — fluent in the languages of dreams, passion and poetry. She is ideas, feelings, urges, memory. She is the maker of cycles. She is the one we leave home to look for, she is the one who we come home to. She lives in the place where language is made. She is the moment before inspiration hits us."
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with Wolves
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Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don’t waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
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"It is play, not properness that is the core of the creative life. The impulse to play is an instinct. No play, no creative life. Be good, no creative life. Sit still, no creative life. Any group, society, institution or organization that encourages women to revile the eccentric, to be suspicious of the new and unusual, to avoid the innovative, to impersonalize the personal, is asking for a culture of dead women."
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run with the Wolves
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"When you focus with soul eyes, you will see home in many, many places."
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Image: Coming Home ~ Mohem Veda
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