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• When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul.

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  Fire, Soul, Feelings

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• Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.

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  Endurance, Inquiring, Mates

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• In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again.

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  Feel Better, Medicine, Missing

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• The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

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  Life, Pain, Fall

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• Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

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  World

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• I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.

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  Woods

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• It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

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  Failure, Causes, Reluctance

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• A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.

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  Real, Hands, Soul

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• Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

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  Dog, Magician, Universe

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Teacher, Hate

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• If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

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  Rocks, Ideas, Focus

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• It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

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  Depression, Listening, Misery

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• Artfulness is not simple entertainment,
  especially during upheaval,
  unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

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  Simple, Creative, Upheaval

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• A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.

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  Self, Soul, Intuition

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• When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of her psyche, when she is desperate; then a fantasy life is far more pleasurable than anything else she can set her sights upon. Her little match lights, because they have no wood to burn, instead burn up the psyche as though it were a big dry log. The psyche begins to play tricks on itself; it lives now in the fantasy fire of all yearning fulfilled. This kind of fantasizing is like a lie: If you tell it often enough, you begin to believe it.

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  Lying, Believe, Passion

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• Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

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  Keys, Swings, Doors

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• What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown. It is this force in its insistence in its loyalty to us in its love of us in its most often mysterious ways that is far greater far more majestic and far more ancient than any heretofore ever known.

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  Loyalty, Faithful, Way

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• Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the soul, and it creeps up to it and steals one of its essential camouflages. In a hunger for soul, our own ego-self steals the pelt

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  Lonely, Light, Self

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• Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

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  Soul, Guarantees, Increase

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• I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

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  Baby, Blood, Voice

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• Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions imbedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds.

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  Dream, Heart, Night

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• Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.

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  Mean, Doe, Silent

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• Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.

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  Soul, Wish, Culture

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• Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

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  Sweet, Real, Writing

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• The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

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  Love, Fall, Desire

  "Women Who Run With the Wolves". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, September 17, 1992.

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