To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes 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 Image
“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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“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 Image
