253 Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.

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.

Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.

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.

The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.

So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.