“It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.” CausesFailureReluctance Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.” KnowsGivingFirstsDoeEarthGivenCausesJusticeGroupsNeededGiving UpMassEndureCriticalDeterminedDramaticContinuingNot Giving UpAccumulationPeace And JusticeGaleCritical MassDramatic Change Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.” MayGrowsCausesVisionCuttingFashionClothesSexualityListsPrimariesOddToesGarmentsRiotCirculationSidewaysTranslatorsPsychoanalytic Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.” WayImportantRealStoriesShowsLife IsCausesKnowingCuttingTroubleDoorsWallFineWideReal LifeOpeningFrightenedBlankInner LifeAdrenalineGreaseCorneredDreamlandPulleys Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.” ActionCausesSecretBehindsConsciousnessDoorsKeysEssentialsTransformationAskingCuriosityTalesAnalysisFairyFairy TaleSwingsEmanateIndividuationSecret Doors Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.” ActionSpiritualityCausesSecretDoorsKeysTransformationAskingSwingsSpiritual AwarenessSecret Doors Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.” WantCausesSelf Discovery Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.” LoveFormDesireFallForceCauses Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.” KnowsIdeasCausesBreakCreativityCreativeMovementInspireStonesSensesTouchedFedsSolitaryContinentsBreak ThroughCreative Work Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion...Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.” WorldIdeasSelfHelpingCausesBurdenGenerosityNo IdeaSmallestSoulfulSelf Will Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.” KnowsWorldSoulHelpingGivenCausesCan DoMassTasksEndureCalmCriticalPortionsStretchingFixingCritical Mass Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
