“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
“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.” StoriesHappensBlooming Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.” ArtMatterStoriesPsychologyEquationsEldersTime Passes Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.” LongStoriesIndividualVoiceCommunityLinesBloodStyleCryBabySittingMedicineBonesWideBreadHipsKneesBreastsChairsTouchingPlasticLapSkirtsRobustClansLatinaLong LinesHungariansPocketbooksLatina Women Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.” WayImportantRealStoriesShowsLife IsCausesKnowingCuttingTroubleDoorsWallFineWideReal LifeOpeningFrightenedBlankInner LifeAdrenalineGreaseCorneredDreamlandPulleys Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.” StoriesIndividualCommunityMedicine Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again.” FeelsStoriesUsedSpiritLostConsciousnessMissingHolyTraditionMedicineMagazinesBeing TrueLiftsFeel BetterDescentRadianceLift You Up 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
“Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.” NeedsStoriesMedicineStorytelling 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
“...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.” StoriesPastSufferingHealingTeensRemedyPast Present Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.” StoriesHappensHappinessJoyHopeWaterBloodTearsLaughterGraduationBlooming Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
