The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of intuition, creativity, and deep emotional understanding.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes highlights the essence of the 'wild woman' as a powerful archetype connected to the realms of dreams and the imaginative spirit. This quote suggests that true wisdom and expression come from embracing our passions, creativity, and the emotional depths of our experiences, rather than merely adhering to societal norms or logic.
In practice
In a workshop on self-discovery, this quote can encourage participants to explore their creative sides.
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
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.
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
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.
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.
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