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.
It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.
Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .
If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.
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