That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.
Interpretation
Intuition serves as a vital connection to our innermost selves.
In this quote, Clarissa Pinkola Estes emphasizes the importance of intuition as a means to access deeper truths within ourselves. It suggests that intuition is a natural guide that reflects our true essence, allowing us to navigate our lives in alignment with our soul's desires and wisdom.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-discovery, one could refer to this quote to encourage trusting one's instincts.
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.
I followed my heart without breaking any rules.
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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