Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.
Interpretation
This quote suggests a journey of reclaiming one's true self, comprising fragmented memories and dreams.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes' quote reflects on the process of self-discovery and empowerment, emphasizing the gradual reclamation of one's identity, which may involve navigating through dreams and the complexities of past memories. The imagery of 'Bone by bone, hair by hair' evokes a sense of rebuilding oneself from the core, symbolizing a deep and personal return to authenticity, particularly for women who have struggled with societal expectations or trauma.
In practice
In a women's empowerment workshop, to inspire participants to embrace their journey of self-discovery.
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.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.
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