“The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.” SoulStoriesHandsIncreaseCraftsGuarantees Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.” SoulHomeEyeFocus Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. To live this way is a cycle in itself, one meant to go on, go on, go on.” WayHeartSoulUseFeelingsSpeakLanguageChanceFireSeaGoes OnHolySingingBreathsIntentionStreamsStayingCycles Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“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
“Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.” BelieveSoulActionEnergySolitudeAbsenceProvisionBoon 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
“So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.” SoulRememberBonesFlesh Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.” WaySoulThreeAbilityEgoRoughVersesNew WaysThree ThingsTenacityDeep LoveDifferentiate Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.” SoulBodyBehaviorIdealsMoodConformCapturedMannerisms Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it creeps up to it and steals one of its essential camouflages. In a hunger for soul, our own ego-self steals the pelt” SoulSelfLightPossibilityEgoEssentialsLonelyHungerStealingHungryCreepsCamouflage 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
“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.” WorldSoulRunningInvolvedSolitudeCreatingSeasonsStayingCyclesPsych Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.” WorldSoulShowsLightActionCan DoPowerfulStruggleWillingYour SoulLitCalmingStormy Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.” SoulCultureSpeakWishSeeingSilentPressured Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of the most important discriminations we can make in this matter is the difference between things that beckon to us and things that call from our souls.” WayWantImportantSoulMatterAsksDifferencesConnectionsSeedsDiscriminationDirtSorting Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.” SoulSelfLoversDirectHungerIntuitionChosenCravingMessengers Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.” ArtSoulFormOur LivesArt IsConcrete 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... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.” WorldSoulShowsLightActionCan DoDarkPowerfulFireTasksGoldShiningYour SoulSparksSignalsStretchingFixingDeckCalmingStormyDark TimesFlare Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions imbedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds.” HeartSoulStoriesUseDreamSpiritNightLanguageProcessTeachDarknessEgoUniversalTransformationErrorsAncientStoresWoundsHealInstructionShelterPsychicsSymbolicPersonaSpirit And Soul Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul.” SoulFeelingsSpeakFireSingingBreathsIntentionStreams 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
“Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative and preventative. It was used to heal fatigue and to prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice and guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life.” WayBelieveSoulSelfActionUsedEnergyImpossibleAdviceListeningSolitudeAncientAbsenceHealGuidanceDaily LifeFatigueProvisionInner SelfWearinessBoonOraclesAncient Times Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.” LooksMayRealSoulHandsMouthsEmptyFilledDozenPleadingSoul Life Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
