...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
Clarissa Pinkola EstesAt bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.
Clarissa Pinkola EstesAll strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.
Clarissa Pinkola EstesCreativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes