Clarissa Pinkola Estes Medicine Quotations

Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

Stories are medicine.

In this tradition a story is 'holy,' and it is used as medicine," she told Radiance magazine. "The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again.

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.