“Refuse to fall down.
If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will 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.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I read “Women Who Run With Wolves” as a teenager, and it deepened my perspectives in so many ways…not to mention gave me a few chuckles by provoking memories of my own adventures with the “wolves”! I really admire Clarissa Pinkola Estes–she is wise, is a gifted storyteller, and is charmingly “down home”.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s blog:
http://ncrcafe.org/blog/6987
