“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
“My brain has no heart, and my heart has no brain. That's why when I speak my mind, I appear heartless and when I do what's in my heart I seem thoughtless.” MindHeartSeemsSpeakBrainMy HeartHeartlessEarnestnessThoughtlessness 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
“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
“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 body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.” LifeHeartBodyPainSpiritFallSpeakColorRecognitionHeatRisingAshesPitsTemperatureColdnessArousal 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
