Back in 2016, I shared, ‘5 Quotes to Awaken Your Warrior Spirit.’ In this post, I wrote:
“Giving up when the road gets dark has never been an option for me. I am on the warrior’s path. Don’t mistake this for physical strength and external show. No. This is a much tougher, darker journey. It is about having the endurance to look at the violence within, to confront the inner terror, the shadows which produce real life monsters on the outside. To defeat them with the power of self-knowledge is the [S]hero’s way.”
I stand by these words today too.
Lately, I keep getting intuitive nudges to re-read one of my favourite books, Women Who Run with the Wolves — Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. I love her Jungian psychoanalytic perspective on the masculine and feminine energies — I studied Jung over many years throughout academia! I enjoy post-Jungian feminist thought! I consider this text as the sacred feminine bible!
If you’re at crossroads in life, if you want to deepen your self-connection, and most importantly connect back with your divine feminine nature, dip into these sacred pages!
Here are 5 wisdom bombs from Women who Run with the Wolves:
1) If you are surrounded by people who cross their eyes and look with disgust up at the ceiling when you are in the room, when you speak, when you act and react, then you are with the people who douse passions — yours and probably their own as well. These are not the people who care about you, your work, your life.
2) To lose focus means to lose energy. The absolutely wrong thing to attempt when we’ve lost focus is to rush about struggling to pack it all back together again. Rushing is not the thing to do… Patience, peace and rocking renew ideas. Just holding the idea and the patience to rock it are what some women might call a luxury. Wild Woman says it is a necessity… 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.
3) I am amazed how little women cry nowadays, and then apologetically. I worry when shame or disuse begins to steal away such a natural function. To be a flowering tree and to be moist is essential, otherwise you will break. Crying is good, it is right. It does not cure dilemma, but it enables the process to continue instead of collapsing.
4) 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.
5) In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency, too, to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.
We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn’t you say you were a believer? Didn’t you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn’t you ask for grace? Don’t you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?
Did these quotes awaken your warrior’s spirit? Have you read this ocean of a book?!
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Stoke within, the sacred fire,
Fan the flame of your true desire,
Awaken the feminine soul,
The primal force!
Both wisdom-keeper and fighter;
The sage and the warrior.
– Payal
