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If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.
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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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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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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If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.
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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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To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.
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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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Stories are medicine.
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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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Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.
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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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When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.
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Be wild that is how to clear the river.
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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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Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.
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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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Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!
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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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If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
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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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