Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“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
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“All these stories present the knife of insight, the flame of the passionate life, the breath to speak what one knows, the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are… — 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… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved… — 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
It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to… — 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… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then… — 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
