Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true vision when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

I want people to find their inner depth.

There is a very pensive and intense side to me that even I did not know someone could capture.

For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online.

The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.

I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience where, in one way, you are still very much yourself, and in some ways you become even more connected to the rest of yourself. All of a sudden, you just get more connected to your child self, and your teenage self, and all these selves that you've maybe been abandoning at every date post that you pass.

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.