“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul… — 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
The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women… — 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
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
