Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your investments, they are your power, they are your prestige, they are your religion, they are your qualifications. It is difficult to drop them; it feels like death.

You have to know that your real home is within.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.

Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

'Dum' is not about the bicep. It is about soul.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

Now, Friends, deal plainly with yourselves, and let the eternal Light search you, and try you, for the good of your souls. For this will deal plainly with you. It will rip you up, and lay you open, and make all manifest which lodges in you; the secret subtlety of the enemy of your souls, this eternal searcher and trier will make manifest. Therefore all to this come, and by this be searched, and judged, and led and guided. For to this you must stand or fall.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body of humanity.