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“To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Clarissa Pinkola Estes is an American poet born on January 27, 1945. Her works are characterized by a unique feminine perspective and rich mythological stories, which have won the favor of readers. more

“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.”

Way Want Important Soul Matter Asks Differences Connections Seeds Discrimination Dirt Sorting

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“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.”

Soul Self Lovers Direct Hunger Intuition Chosen Craving Messengers

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“Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.”

Art Illusion Eternity Only Time

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“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.”

Art Soul Form Our Lives Art Is Concrete

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“To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it”

Humans Mean Doe Moving Left Black Loses White Crazy Integrity Opposites West East Primaries Undone Socialization The Wild Nature

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“I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.”

Woods

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“I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.”

Body Built Extravagant

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“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.”

Knows Way Doe Beautiful Sound Natural Accepting Know How Perspective Shapes Creatures Draws Bird Wings Leap Snaps Forsake Feline Wild Beauty How Beautiful She Is

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“If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.”

Ifs Impossible Have Faith Incorrigible

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“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.”

Knows May Culture Names Memories Answers Understood Absolutes Forgotten Bones Neglect Feminine Buried Kinship Irrevocable Old Memories

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