Clarissa Pinkola Estés is one of my favorite authors and story tellers. Listening to her speak and reading her words always brings me home to my deepest self. So today I’m sharing a few quotes from her writing and speaking.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.”
― The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”
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“Dogs are the magicians of the universe.”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these — to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
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“The difference between comfort and nurture is this: if you have a plant that is sick because you keep it in a dark closet, and you say soothing words to it, that is comfort.If you take out of the closet and put in the sun, give it something to drink, and then talk to it, that is nurture”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.
May you walk in beauty.
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