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Be wild that is how to clear the river.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 27
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Psychologist
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Indiana
United States
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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River
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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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Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
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The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence.
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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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Dogs are the magicians of the universe.
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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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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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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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I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.
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Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
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A runner is real when she takes the first step.
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A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.
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Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.
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The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.
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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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I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.
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God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?
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Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!
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