I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories… water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
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
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
I’ll tell you right now, the doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is the door; if you have an old, old story, that is the door.
Don’t waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.
This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.
While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation, I do mean she must set for herself something in life that she is willing to reach for and therefore take risks for.
Even in the best of worlds the soul needs refurbishing from time to time.
To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—all in the same relationship.
Talking is the voice of human, singing is the voice of soul.
Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything — we need only listen.
A woman must be able to stand in the face of power, because ultimately some part of that power will become hers.
Sometimes there are no words to help one’s courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.
The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
…stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
To take the world into one’s arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of wildish spirit.
If a woman holds on to this gift of being old while she is young and young while she is old, she will always know what comes next If she has lost it, she can yet reclaim it with some purposeful psychic work.
To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature.
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.
Being real doesn’t mean being reckless, it means allowing La Voz Mitologica, The Mythological Voice, to speak. One does that by shutting off the ego for a while and letting that which wishes to speak, speak.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and laughter ’til they bloom, ’til you yourself burst into bloom.
Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. These intuitive powers were given to your soul at birth.
We can see that for the deep work to continue, trying to prove one’s worth to the chorus of jealous hags is pointless.
Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time. She has more excuses than dogs have hairs. She must just simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.
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.