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.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
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