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• When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.

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  Home, Eye, Focus

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• For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

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  Solitude, Needs, Forests

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• Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

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  Relationship, Letting Go, Running

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• When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

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  Visionaries, Oracles, World

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• 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.

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  Keys, Swings, Doors

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• Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

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  Love You, Creative, World

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• Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

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  Teacher, Light, Lovers

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• So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.

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  Soul, Flesh, Remember

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• Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one.

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  Long Ago, Two, Oneness

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• Be wild; that is how to clear the river.

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  Rivers, Rubies, Clear

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• There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

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  Despair, Discouraged, Chairs

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• It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

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  Psychics, Doe, Lost

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• It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

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  Giving Up, Justice, Earth

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• When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she is pressed into living a most unnatural life- a life that is self-blinding.. . without innovation. The world-wide issue for women is that under such conditions they are not only silenced, they are put to sleep. Their concerns, their viewpoints, their own truths are vaporized.

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  Sleep, Self, Issues

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• To be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one's own numinosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one's own way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means to stand and live.

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  Strength, Strong, Mean

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• I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively.

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  Mean, Doors, Order

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• It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild language we are learning by heart under the sea. When a woman speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, staying tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul. To live this way is a cycle in itself, one meant to go on, go on, go on.

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  Heart, Fire, Sea

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• When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.

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  Memories, Names, Culture

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• I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

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  Blooming, Stories, Happens

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• To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

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  Mean, Embrace, Love Means

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• Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

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  Art, Block, Stupid

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• Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered.

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  Dream, Night, Hair

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• The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

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  Dream, Passion, Language

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• The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

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  Creativity, Creative, Solitude

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• To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.

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  Mean, Passion, Creativity

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