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If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 27
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Indiana
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.
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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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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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If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.
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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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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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Dogs are the magicians of the universe.
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It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.
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Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.
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God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?
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Stories are medicine. They have such power they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
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When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.
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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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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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Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.
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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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To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it
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