Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again.Collection: Feel Better
The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.Collection: Hands
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.Collection: Mean
Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .Collection: Running
Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till the next time, forgive but give no more chances it’s a whole new game if there is another incident. You can give one more chance, give several more chances, give many chances, give chances only if. You can forgive part, all, or half of the offense. You can devise a blanket of forgiveness. You decideCollection: Games
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!Collection: Growth
God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?Collection: Forgiveness
Stories are medicine.Collection: Medicine
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.Collection: Mind
we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.Collection: Anger
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 itCollection: Integrity
Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.Collection: Psychics
Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.Collection: Art
Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.Collection: Mean
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.Collection: Deterioration
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything – we need only listen.Collection: Stories
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.Collection: Strong
To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one’s own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one’s own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.Collection: Strong