#clarissa pinkola estés

[petaltexturedskies]

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

[ladylilis]

Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mates, and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave. 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. They have been the targets of those who would clean up the wilds as well as the wildish environs of the psyche, extincting the instinctual, and leaving no trace of it behind. The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

[dabiconcordia]

“Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

[perfectfeelings]

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work with these stories; water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

[thoughtkick]

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work with these stories; water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

[entheognosis]

In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative and preventative. It was used to heal fatigue and to prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice and guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

art by Paul Emile Chabas

[leggerezza-dell-essere]

Sappiamo di dover bruciare fino in fondo, e poi sederci. sulle ceneri di colei che un tempo pensavamo di essere. e ricominciare da lì

 Clarissa Pinkola Estés

[twicedailyquotes]

She can still hear whispers of the wild God in her blood.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés Women Who Run with Wolves

[catladychronicles]

Woman who lives under the lake

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

There is no “supposed to be” in bodies. The question is not size of shape or years of age, or even having two of everything, for some do not. But the wild issue is, does this body feel, does it have right connection to pleasure, to heart, to soul, to the wild? Does it have happiness, joy?”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from  “Women who Run with the Wolves,” c. 1992

[canesenzafissadimora]

La terra migliore in cui seminare e

far crescere qualcosa di nuovo

si trova di nuovo nel fondo.

In questo senso,

toccare il fondo,

anche se è estremamente doloroso,

è anche il terreno di coltura..

[petaltexturedskies]

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.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

[julesofnature]

“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.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, 1992.

[dabiconcordia]

“Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

[dk-thrive]

What does one feed intuition so that it is consistently nourished and responsive to our requests to scan our environs? One feeds it life—one feeds it life by listening to it. What good is a voice without an ear to receive it? 

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves. (Ballantine Books, 1992) (via Alive on All Channels)

[ladylilis]

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype