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Clarissa Pinkola Estés QUOTES

81 " In a barren culture, one or two fragmentary story-themes play, like a broken record, broadcasting the same notes over and over again. "

― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

82 " Este cea care tună împotriva nedreptăţii. [...] Este cea pentru care ne părăsim casa și este casa la care ne întoarcem.
E aici astăzi, șade la masa noastră, stă cu noi la rând, merge înaintea noastră pe stradă. Trăiește în viitor și se întoarce în timp pentru a ne întâlni acum. "

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

83 " While archetypes may emanate through us for short periods of time, in what we call numinous experience, no woman can emanate an archetype continuously. Only the archetype itself can withstand such projections such as ever-able, all giving, eternally energetic. We may try to emulate these, but they are ideals, not achievable by humans, and not meant to be. Yet the trap requires that women exhaust themselves trying to achieve these unrealistic levels. To avoid the trap, one has to learn to say 'Halt' and 'Stop the music,' and of course mean it. "

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

84 " Bir kadının içine doğduğu ve altında yaşadığı en yıkıcı kültürel koşullar, insanın ruhuna danışmadan boyun eğmesinde ısrar eden; bir kadını ruhu ile toplum arasında seçim yapmaya zorlayan; ekonomik zümreler ya da
kast sistemleri nedeniyle başkalarına merhameti engelleyen; bedenin 'temizlenmesi' gereken bir şey ya da emirle düzene sokulacak bir tapınak olarak görüldüğü; yeni, olağandışı ya da farklı olanın hiçbir zevk uyandırmadığı; merak ve yaratıcılığın ödüllendirilmek yerine cezalandırılıp küçümsendiği; ruhun kendi başına bir varlık olarak kabul edilmediği toplumlarda görülür.

Yasaklamalarına uymak için sizden ruhunuza zarar vermenizi talep eden bir kültür, gerçekte çok hasta bir kültürdür. Bu 'kültür' kadının içinde yaşadığı kültür olabileceği gibi, bundan daha kahredici olmak üzere, kendi zihninde taşıdığı ve uyum gösterdiği bir kültür de olabilir. "

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

85 " Talismans are reminders of what is felt but not seen, what is so, but not immediately obvious. "

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

86 " I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about house cleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. "

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

87 " I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively. "

― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

88 " Ένα μέρος κάθε γυναίκας και κάθε άντρα αρνείται να παραδεχθεί ότι σε όλες τις σχέσεις αγάπης η Κυρία Θάνατος πρέπει να έχει το μερίδιο της. Καμωνόμαστε ότι μπορούμε να αγαπάμε χωρίς να έχουν θανατωθεί οι ψευδαισθήσεις μας περί αγάπης, καμωνόμαστε ότι μπορούμε να συνεχίσουμε χωρίς τον θάνατο των υπερφίαλων προσδοκιών μας, καμωνόμαστε ότι μπορούμε να προχωρήσουμε χωρίς να τελειώνουμε με τα αναψοκοκκινίσματα του ερωτικού πυρετού. Αλλά στην αγάπη όλα κάποια στιγμή διαλύονται, όλα. Το εγώ δεν θέλει να το δεχτεί. Κι όμως έτσι είναι να γίνει, και όσοι έχουμε βαθιά και αδάμαστη φύση μπαίνουμε σ' αυτή τη δοκιμασία.
Τι πεθαίνει; Η ψευδαίσθηση πεθαίνει, η άπληστη επιθυμία μας να τα έχουμε όλα, να έχουμε μόνο τα υπέροχα - αυτά πεθαίνουν. Γιατί η αγάπη πάντα μας οδηγεί σε κατάβαση στη φύση του θανάτου. "

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

89 " Αγαπώ σημαίνει παραμένω όταν κάθε κύτταρο μου ουρλιάζει "Φύγε! "

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

90 " Having a lover/friend who regards you as a living growing criatura, being, just as much as the tree from the ground, or a ficus in the house, or a rose garden out in the side yard... having a lover and friends who look at you as a true living breathing entity, one that is human but made of very fine and moist and magical things as well... a lover and friends who support the ciatura in you... these are the people you are looking for. They will be the friends of your soul for life. 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. "

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

91 " The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door. "

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

92 " The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of the most important discriminations we can make in this matter is the difference between things that beckon to us and things that call from our souls.
Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the choice of mates and lovers. 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 you 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. "

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

93 " When seeking guidance, don't ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice. "

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

94 " 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. "

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

95 " There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises. "

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

96 " Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. "

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

97 " Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent. "

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

98 " If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman,
don't worry, there is still time "

― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

99 " I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only. "

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

100 " we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking. "

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