Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes 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… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering… — 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
The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted 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
