“Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.” MeanDoeAgreeSilentGender 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
“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
“It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires” DoeLostWanderPsychicsKinshipSoulful Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it” HumansMeanDoeMovingLeftBlackLosesWhiteCrazyIntegrityOppositesWestEastPrimariesUndoneSocializationThe Wild Nature Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she leaps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.” KnowsWayDoeBeautifulSoundNaturalAcceptingKnow HowPerspectiveShapesCreaturesDrawsBirdWingsLeapSnapsForsakeFelineWild BeautyHow Beautiful She Is Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.” KnowsWayMeanDoeAbleStrongStrengthMeetingsMusclesFleeingSproutsThe Wild Nature Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.” IfsKnowsFeelsPersonsDoeLeftCircumstancesSorrowForgivenessAngrySorryRageForgivenGetting Over YouRage And Anger Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.” KindDoeMemoriesForgetEmotionLaysErase Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
