Self Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

10 Self quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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These ten succinct sayings capture Estes’s storytelling flair as she turns inward. They provide a quick, evocative taste of her mythic, feminine‑focused insights into personal growth.

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Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the…

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Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the…

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Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to…

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I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night…

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When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she…

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The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a…

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A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering…

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The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she…

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The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise.…

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Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted 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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