“All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.” IfsWorldFirstsStillsSoulHelpingStrongHealingHellReturnLuckyTrappedGo To Hell Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing 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 of the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning one's life and self anew.” IfsSoulSelfOpportunityViewsLandWorstIncreaseBraveInsightDevelopingGuaranteesPsychicsPoorestBrave WomenSoul Power Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.” IfsLongHas BeensStillsLyingWaitingLong TimeSeekingWaiting For You Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.” IfsTrackCunningRebelliousInsurgentRight TrackUnrulyIncorrigible 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
“Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till the next time, forgive but give no more chances it’s a whole new game if there is another incident. You can give one more chance, give several more chances, give many chances, give chances only if. You can forgive part, all, or half of the offense. You can devise a blanket of forgiveness. You decide” IfsWayGivingWholeNextGamesChanceHalfCreationForgivingOffenseNext TimeIncidentsBlanket Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.” IfsMenHumansHeartChildrenMadeSoulShowsFormSpiritSpeakDarkAnimalFeetGreatnessTestsSkinsRoseVariousWoodsScalesTalesFairyDivinitySilverYellowFairy TaleDisguiseTestingDeitiesGreat PowerOld WomanRobesRagsPetalsFrailShowing UpMuddyGreat SpiritLimesRose PetalsOld Wood Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it.” IfsFeelsBelieveKindLittlesEnoughPlayFeelingsBigsLightLife IsLyingPassionFantasyFireBloodSightWoodsTricksDryDesperateYearningFulfilledFrozenExtremityFantasy Life Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time” IfsStillsTimeWomenWorry Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“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.” IfsWorldSelfStoriesWaterDoorsSkyBearsDeeperScarSaneFull Life Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a "completely ready," there is never a really "right time." As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one's nose, and jumps into the abyss. If this were not so, we would not have needed to create the words heroine, hero, or courage.” IfsNeedsReadyHeroNeededTruth IsNosesUnconsciousRight TimeAbyssHeroinesDescentHoping For The BestTime Of NeedThere Comes A TimeI Need Time Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.” IfsHeartMayFallAsksHeavenPrayerClearMiddleListeningFilledMiseryRefuseHungryLiftsRisingFalling DownLiftingBeggarDark Night Of The Soul Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.” IfsHappensWoods Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.” IfsImpossibleHave FaithIncorrigible Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.” IfsMeanHas BeensDifferentCultureBlackHealingSeeingCenturyStandingOriginalsEdgesContributionSheepProvenBeing DifferentStunningLoneCringeBlightMaverickLone WolfBlack Sheep 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
“If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.” IfsNeedsStillsIdeasLostFocusRocksDown And Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.” PeopleIfsWould BeBlackBlack PeopleTyrantsHispanic Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
