The book Women who Run with the Wolves talks about the innate primordial
feminine instinct, that many have quite forgotten over the eons!
This book is indeed a wonderful motivational,
that inspires us to reinterpret the experience of women through folk tales, through
art, and through nature!
To get in touch with the liberating and
the transforming “wolf” that’s encouraging us to grow and be free!
Women
who Run with the Wolves is for people who want to understand
each other, work on their identity and self-worth, and heal emotional wounds.
Wounds we sometimes inherit from our
ancestors or patriarchal institutions themselves.
In this respect, this book is a road map
to find all the “traps” that keep us from finding the way back home to our true
selves and our instincts.
It moves us towards that wild woman,
perceptive with a playful spirit and wonderful capacity for affection.
Within every woman there lives a powerful
force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.
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| from the blurb to the book... |
She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women.
But then, she is an endangered species.
In Women
who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy
tales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect
with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature.
Through the stories and commentaries in
this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman and hold her against our
deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.
In fact, Dr. Estés has created a new
lexicon for describing the female psyche.
Paying rich accolades to this lovely
read, Maya Angelou has this to say: "I am grateful to Women who Run with the Wolves and to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, to be caring, and to
be women. Everyone who can read should read this book."
Let’s now take a look at seven excerpts
from the book, worth reflecting on…!
1.
Be Yourself
“To
be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others and yet to comply with what
others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
2.
Be Strong
“To
be strong does not mean to sprout muscles and flex. It means meeting one’s own
luminosity without fleeing, actively living with the wild nature in one’s own
way. It means to be able to learn, to be able to stand what we know. It means
to stand and live.”
3.
Getting away allows us to discover ourselves
“While
exile is not a thing to desire for the fun of it, there is an unexpected gain
from it; the gifts of exile are many. It takes out weakness by the pounding. It
removes whininess, enables acute insight, heightens intuition, grants the power
of keen observation and perspective that the ‘insider’ can never achieve.”
4.
What happens when you don’t love yourself
“Our
secret hunger for being loved is not beautiful. Our disuse and misuse of love
is not beautiful. Our lack of loyalty and devotion is unloving, our state of
separation from the soul is ugly, based on psychological warts, inadequacies,
and childhood fancies.”
5.
Authentic love
“Yet
love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one
phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought
back.”
6.
Hit rock bottom
“The
best land to plant and grow something new again is rock bottom. In that sense,
hitting rock bottom, although extremely painful, is also the ground to sow new
life on.”
7.
Authentic growth
“If
we live as we breathe, taking and releasing, we cannot make mistakes.”
It’s the cycle of life: take, learn, let
go, accept, move forward. It’s natural and we should accept it and integrate it
into our daily lives.
To conclude, these quotes from Women who Run with the Wolves are just
a tiny sample of the deep well of ancestral knowledge that it offers us. It
teaches us new and very valuable things to grow and get in touch with the wild
women, that women really are!
With lovely inputs from Dr. Estes’s
website!
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