“To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.” MeanMomentsFeelingsAbleActionTogetherChoicesPassionLossAbilityActingCreativityCreativePossibilityExpressionGoes OnFindingsMessagesUniqueResponseReactionsCarrieSuppressingMilieuAction And Reaction Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“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.” IfsWantDoeArtMadeCreativeClearStupidDivineWillingMouthsRainFlowRiversStonesBlockManageStreamsDryParadoxThronesSpillsRubiesCreative LifeCensoringJackassesDry Up Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.” ImportantCreativityCreativeSolitudeImportant ThingsCreative Life 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
“Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.” WorldSunCreativeLove YouWarmthCreative Life Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.” Life IsSimpleCreativeDutySacredEntertainmentUpheavalCreative LifeUnleashing Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
