“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
“With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.” WorldTwoDreamEyeNightPassionLanguageTeacherThousandIntuitionAlliesFluentThe Wild NatureStarry NightWild Women Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.” WorldWayHumansHuman BeingsPoorRichTreeConservationArbor Day 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
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.” WorldBusinessCompassionTasksStretchingFixing 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
“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
“In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.” WorldFallDarkAttitudeFocusPositive ThinkingWindIllSpendingTendenciesSailDark TimesFainting 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
“Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.” WorldSunCreativeLove YouWarmthCreative Life Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion...Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.” WorldIdeasSelfHelpingCausesBurdenGenerosityNo IdeaSmallestSoulfulSelf Will 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
“When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into living a most unnatural life- a life that is self-blinding.. . without innovation. The world-wide issue for women is that under such conditions they are not only silenced, they are put to sleep. Their concerns, their viewpoints, their own truths are vaporized.” WorldSelfSleepIssuesConditionsQuietConcernInnovationWideUpsetUnnaturalViewpointsCooperatives Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.” WorldCreatorGuidesPermanentInternalsUrgesMakersListenersGiftedIntuitiveInventorVisionariesWatchersOraclesOuter Worlds Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
