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Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 27
Poet
Psychologist
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Indiana
United States
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
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The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.
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We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.
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The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.
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Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
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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 soul, and it creeps up to it and steals one of its essential camouflages. In a hunger for soul, our own ego-self steals the pelt
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Stories are medicine.
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Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one.
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Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.
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To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.
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So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.
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There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.
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One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.
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...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
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If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.
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Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
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When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.
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Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.
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