--- title: "14 Way Quotes By Clarissa Pinkola Estes" description: "14 Way quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Plus more from Clarissa Pinkola Estes and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_advent_ritual-is-one-of-the-ways-in-which-human_2725067.png" --- > [Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/ritual-is-one-of-the-ways-in-which-humans-put-their-lives-in/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_advent_ritual-is-one-of-the-ways-in-which-human_2725067.png) > [To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-be-strong-does-not-mean-to-sprout-muscles-and-flex-it-means/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d4/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_able_to-be-strong-does-not-mean-to-sprout-mus_268352.png) > [Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/three-things-differentiate-living-from-the-soul-verses-living-from/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/155/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_ability_three-things-differentiate-living-from-t_278463.png) > [I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/i-became-married-at-a-young-age-and-had-two-daughters-and-divorced-at/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/688/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_age_i-became-married-at-a-young-age-and-had_2305624.png) > [To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-be-poor-and-be-without-trees-is-to-be-the-most-starved-human-being/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e76/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_conservation_to-be-poor-and-be-without-trees-is-to-be_1045104.png) > [Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/some-say-that-sudden-knowledge-of-mystical-matters-is-accomplished/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6a/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_accomplished_some-say-that-sudden-knowledge-of-mystic_1556630.png) > [What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/what-is-that-which-can-never-die-it-is-that-faithful-force-that-is/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1b/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_ancient_what-is-that-which-can-never-die-it-is-t_1610739.png) > [It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/it-is-that-holy-poetry-and-singing-we-are-after-it-is-the-wild/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a65/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_breaths_it-is-that-holy-poetry-and-singing-we-ar_2677790.png) > [Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/forgiveness-is-an-act-of-creation-you-can-choose-from-many-ways-to-do/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbe/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_blanket_forgiveness-is-an-act-of-creation-you-ca_625831.jpg) > [Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/solitude-is-not-an-absence-of-energy-or-action-as-some-believe-but-is/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31e/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_absence_solitude-is-not-an-absence-of-energy-or_1118249.jpg) > [When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/when-we-accept-our-own-wild-beauty-it-is-put-into-perspective-and-we/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/706/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_accepting_when-we-accept-our-own-wild-beauty-it-is_2245877.png) > [Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/though-fairy-tales-end-after-ten-pages-our-lives-do-not-we-are-multi/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e8/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_crash_though-fairy-tales-end-after-ten-pages-o_2830874.png) > [The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/the-way-to-maintain-one-s-connection-to-the-wild-is-to-ask-yourself-2/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/170/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_ask-yourself_the-way-to-maintain-one-s-connection-to_2372696.png) > [“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/stories-set-the-inner-life-into-motion-and-this-is-particularly/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estés](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ba/clarissa-pinkola-estes-1461_adrenaline_stories-set-the-inner-life-into-motion-a_2609596.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Clarissa Pinkola Estes > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/tell-the-truth-about-your-wound-and-then-you-will-get-a-truthful/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [“Whether you are possessed of a simple heart or the ambitions of an Amazon, whether you are trying to make it to the top…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/whether-you-are-possessed-of-a-simple-heart-or-the-ambitions-of-an/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estés](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/the-doors-to-the-world-of-the-wild-self-are-few-but-precious-if-you/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/friends-who-love-you-and-have-warmth-for-your-creative-life-are-the/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/creativity-is-not-a-solitary-movement-that-is-its-power-whatever-is/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/a-healthy-woman-is-much-like-a-wolf-robust-chock-full-strong-life/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/do-not-cringe-and-make-yourself-small-if-you-are-called-the-black/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Dogs are the magicians of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/dogs-are-the-magicians-of-the-universe/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/ours-is-not-the-task-of-fixing-the-entire-world-all-at-once-but-of/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/being-real-doesn-t-mean-being-reckless-it-means-allowing-la-voz/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estés](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/without-art-we-live-under-the-illusion-that-there-is-only-time-and/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/some-psychological-thinkers-including-freud-and-bettelheim-have/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estés](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/if-you-have-never-been-called-a-defiant-incorrigible-impossible-woman/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/we-all-begin-the-process-before-we-are-ready-before-we-are-strong/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) > [“To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarissa-pinkola-estes/to-love-a-woman-the-mate-must-also-love-her-wildish-nature/) [Clarissa Pinkola Estés](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarissa-pinkola-estes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/clarissa-pinkola-estes/#itemlist", "name": "14 Way Quotes By Clarissa Pinkola Estes", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. 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It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. 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