Feelings Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

9 Feelings quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ nine short reflections on feelings draw on folklore, offering a compact, myth‑rich perspective on inner life.

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When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.

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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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When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she…

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It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to…

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We are all filled with a longing for the wild. There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning. We were taught…

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we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue…

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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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To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to…

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When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach…

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

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we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts…

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“To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.”

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