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10 powerful quotes from Women who run with the wolves

Updated: Dec 10

To my fellow adventurous women, I share your spirit. Upon encountering Clarissa Pinkola Estes' work "Women who run with the wolves," a whole new realm unfolded before me. This book has become a staple for many of us, resting on our bedside tables. I thoroughly enjoy delving into the tales, each time feeling a fresh awakening of something profound within me. You will will find a selection of quote from Women who run with the wolves book I highlighted while reading it.


Women who run with the wolves, 10 inspiring quotes
Women who run with the wolves, 10 inspiring quotes

I have chosen to share with you10 impactful quotes from the book "Women who run with the wolves" that have resonated with me.


1:

There is no greater blessing a mother can give her daughter than a reliable sense of the veracity of her own intuition. Intuition is handed from parent. to child in the simpliest ways. "You have good judgment. What do you think lies hidden behind all this?"

Rather than defining intuition as some unreasoned faulty quirk,


2:

intuition is defined as truly soul-voice speaking.

 

The archetype of the Wild Woman


As in all art, she resides in the guts, not in the head.

wild woman oil painting, artwork inspired by women who run with the wolves
"UNLEASHED" oil on canvas

3:

"She is intuitive, typical, and normative. She is utterly essential to women's mental and soul health." (woman who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

Reconnecting to our Wild SELF

4:

When we are connected to the instinctual self, to the soul of the feminine which is natural and wild, then instead of looking over whatever happens to be on display, we say to ourselves, "what am I hungry for?". (woman who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

Naima fine artist, painting the wild that lives within us
painting the wild within.

5:

The wildish woman is, by nature, intense and talented. (woman who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

6:

The psyches and souls of women also hve their own cycles and seasons of doing solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to soul-place. (woman who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

A woman in water surrounded by waterlilies, pisces woman
"give grace to your unfolding"

Returning, going back to your home.


7:

Home is where a thought or feeling can be sustained instead of being interrupted or torn away frm us because somtheinh is demanding our time and attention. Although there are many physical places one can go to "feel" her way back to this special home, the physical place itself is not home; it is only the vehicule that rocks the ego to sleep so that we can go to rest of the way by ourselves. (woman who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

The vehicules are many: music, art, forest, ocean spume, sunrise, solitude...These takes us home to a. nutritive world...


8:

Home is the pristine instinctual life that works as easily as a joint sliding upon its greased bearing, where all is as itshould be, where all noises sounds right, and the light is goodn and the smell makes us feel calm rather than. alarmed. Whatever revivifies balance is what is essential. That is home. (woman who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

The soul's of the woman is like a butterfly
Going back to yourself

The practice of Intentional Solitude


9:

To converse with the wild feminine, a woman must temporarily leave the world and inhabit a state of aloneness in the oldest sense of the word. (woman who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

10:

Solitude is not the absence of energy or action but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. (woman who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)

I hope you enjoyed reading these quotes which everytime I read inspires me for my art and in my life.


Naïma


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