Body Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

8 Body quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes provides eight poetic lines that link the body to mythic narratives and inner wildness. This compact set hints at her storytelling depth.

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Suppose... the body is a God in its own right, a teacher, a mentor, a certified guide? Then what? … Are we…

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

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“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its colour and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,…

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The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in…

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The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,…

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It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have…

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When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured…

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The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its…

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Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

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Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,…

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A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

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Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say…

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Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world…

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“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…

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

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“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…

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