Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“There is something waiting for us at the edge of the woods, and it is our fate to meet it.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its colour and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“A woman's issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés 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… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Like a trail through a forest which becomes more and more faint and finally seems to diminish to a nothing, traditional psychologiical… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“So what compromises the Wild Woman? From the viewpoint of archetypal psychology as well as in ancient traditions, she is the female… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“This explosive psychological 'sneaking' occurs when a woman suppresses large parts of self into the shadows of the psyche. In the view… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés 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
