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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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Universe
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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 the deep self.
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Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
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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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Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
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For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.
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Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.
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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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When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.
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If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.
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The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated returned to the spirit.
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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 stands before ou will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for it is the direct messenger of the soul.
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If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
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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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Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
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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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Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.
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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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The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
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We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive, endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion.
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Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.
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