Montage & Quotes by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

" The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This is the sorting of the seed from the dirt. One of the most important discriminations we can make in this matter is the difference between things that beckon to us and things that call from our souls. 

Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the choice of mates and lovers. 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." 

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

"It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there is in many women a 'hungry' one inside. But rather than hungry to be a certain size, shape, or height, rather than hungry to fit the stereotype; women are hungry for basic regard from the culture surrounding them. The 'hungry' one inside is longing to be treated respectfully, to be accepted and in the very least, to be met without stereotyping." 

"A Prayer
Refuse to fall down
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down,
lift your heart toward heaven,
and like a hungry beggar,
ask that it be filled.
You may be pushed down.
You may be kept from rising.
But no one can keep you from lifting your heart
toward heaven
only you.
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. " 

  "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." 

"To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy." 

Quotes by Allen Ginsberg and photo by Ivan Trejo

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

fierce photos of knives&cougars paired with BUKOWSKI quotes

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

JIM MORRISON - QUOTES

JIM MORRISON - QUOTES

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. 

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

 Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.  

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. 

The time to hesitate is through.  

j.m YOU ROCK 

  

Joseph Campbell

 My favorite quotes from Joseph Campbell, author of 'Power of Myth'

Incorporated with some photos from real-life blogs.

1.

" We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it."

"No one can tell you what it is going to be. 

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

All the time. "

"It is miraculous.  

I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time-namely, 

that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, 

waiting for you, 

and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. 

When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, 

and they open the doors to you. "

"  I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,  

and doors will open where 

you didn't know they were going to be. "

2.

 "  People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. 

I don't think that's what we're really seeking.  

I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive... "

" ....so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane 

will have resonances within our own innermost being 

and reality, so that we  

actually feel the rapture of being alive.

....That's what it's all finally about, and that's what these clues help us to find within ourselves. "

 

QUOTES FROM WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES BY SAGE SWEETWATER

"Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts. And even with these well-crafted practices, much of what occurs in this ineffable world remains forever mysterious to us, for it breaks physical laws and rational laws as we know them."

"Seventy-five percent confident will do nicely. Seventy-five percent is a goodly amount. Remember, we say that a flower is blooming whether it is in half, three-quarters, or full bloom." 

What is the basic nutrition for the soul? Well, it differs from creature to creature, but here are some combinations. ... For some women air, night, sunlight, and trees are necessities. For others, words, paper, and books are the only things that satiate. For others, color, form, shadow, and clay at the absolutes. Some women must leap, bow, and run, for their souls crave dance. Yet others crave only a tree-leaning peace." 

"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." 

"Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say a nonconformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, means one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture." 

images via IGOR+ANDRE

Here are some lovely quotes from Aristotle

Happiness in the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

You will never do anything in this world without courage.

Excellence is an art won my training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

No genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The finest qualities of our nature

Like the bloom on fruits
can be preserved only be the most delicate handeling
Yet we dont treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

-Thoreau.
The Thoreau,
The one I always always quote