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All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 27
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Indiana
United States
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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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Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
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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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Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.
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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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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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When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.
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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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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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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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Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
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It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
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My brain has no heart, and my heart has no brain. That's why when I speak my mind, I appear heartless and when I do what's in my heart I seem thoughtless.
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The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.
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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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At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.
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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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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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Be wild that is how to clear the river.
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Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.
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