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All Quotes by author - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
" Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know. "
Medicine
Find
Everyone
" Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open. "
Transformation
Questions
Doors
" Cynicism means the conduit to the soul has a great kink in it, like a garden hose in which nothing flows in either direction. "
Direction
Garden
Great
" Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor. "
Forget
Active
Dwell
" Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one's resolve to retaliate. "
Giving Up
Up
Decision
" How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. "
You
Angry
Sorry
" I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body. "
Close
Am
Built
" I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself. "
Support
Way
Young
" If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants. "
Black
Hispanic
Women
" If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more. "
Need
Lost
Rock
" I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. "
Yourself
Hope
Laughter
" I know people heal by being able to tell the story - the whole story. "
Know
People
Story
" In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding. "
Like
Time
Story
" It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening. "
Good
Clear
Listening
" I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture. "
Nature
Nurture
Hungarian
" Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons. "
Seasons
Trouble
Forgiveness
" Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people. "
Crazy People
People
Crazy
" No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called 'Mrs.' That simply means that we have a family. "
Women
Family
Woman
" 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. "
Own
Enough
Heart
" People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers. "
Door
People
Live
" 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. "
Say
True
Silent
" Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma. "
Cell Phones
Computers
Human
" That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul. "
Direct
Soul
Messenger
" The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone. "
Life
Drive
Heart
" There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation. "
Soul
Listening
Poetry
" The soul has no gender. "
Soul
Gender
" This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. "
Kind
Forgetting
Memory
" To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible. "
Evil
People
Everything
" To Than Shwe, a kingdom in return for the eternal soul is just the right egregious trade-off. Than Shwe is a general who carries the light of unbounded ambition. "
Right
Ambition
Soul
" We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power. "
Us
Power
Blessing
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