Doe Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

8 Doe quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes shares eight concise insights on 'Doe,' each tinged with her mythic storytelling. This modest set offers a quick taste of her narrative voice on the theme.

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To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with…

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This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

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Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does…

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It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an…

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Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.

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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,…

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It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking…

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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…

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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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