Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“When a life is too controlled, there becomes less and less life to control. In” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“However, the miracle we are seeking takes time: time to find it, time to bring it to life.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“All these stories present the knife of insight, the flame of the passionate life, the breath to speak what one knows, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“I’ll tell you right now, the doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“So, the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning out of control, but in its original sense,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Having a lover/friend who regards you as a living growing criatura, being, just as much as the tree from the ground, or… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, no matter how many times she is pushed down, she bounds up again. No matter how many times she is forbidden,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“El duende is literally the goblin wind or force behind a person’s actions and creative life, including the way they walk, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“So what compromises the Wild Woman? From the viewpoint of archetypal psychology as well as in ancient traditions, she is the female… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. Yet, separation from… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
“Whether you are possessed of a simple heart or the ambitions of an Amazon, whether you are trying to make it to the top… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share
The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
“Being real doesn't mean being reckless, it means allowing La Voz Mitologica, The Mythological Voice, to speak. One does that by shutting off the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
“Some psychological thinkers, including Freud and Bettelheim, have interpreted episodes such as those found in the Bluebeard tale as psychological punishments for women’s sexual… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share
