“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
“we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking.” KnowsEnoughFeelingsSpeakLanguageStrongProcessAnswersKnow HowReadyDialogueThunderStrong EnoughThoughts And FeelingsIndividuationReclamation 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
“When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.” KnowsMayCultureNamesMemoriesAnswersUnderstoodAbsolutesForgottenBonesNeglectFeminineBuriedKinshipIrrevocableOld Memories 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
“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
“As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche continue to be killed off.” KnowsBelieveLongBeing TrueImpulseFemininePowerlessRegister 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
“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
“Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.” KnowsShareMedicineHelpful Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.” KnowsLightTeacherLoversConsciousCriticalIntuitiveFieryLovers And Friends Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
