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She is often eccentric, somewhat wild. She may be someone who people hate to hear but learn to listen to. She's the one who has, "... been doing it all wrong until people discover she's been doing it all right all along." She works from passion and intuition. She touches people--inspires them, brings them to life.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes says that there is a part of us that can never be happy until the Gypsy Dances -- meaning our wildness or our natural instincts, our deepest soul. There is something terribly dangerous and frightening about the aspect of the wild and many women have been domesticated away from their own wild natures. I say let the Gypsy dance!
It is primarily responsiveness that makes the Wild Woman what she is. Clarissa Pinkola Estes states that, "The word response comes from the Latin 'to pledge, to promise' -- and that is her strong suit... Her promise to us, if we will not thwart it, is that she will cause us to live. She will cause us to live fully alive...". As we reclaim our nature, as we learn to dance, our deep instinctual life is awakened and we are caused to "live fully alive" and be not quite tame.
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It is our intense desire to fit, to the degree that we sometimes deny our own truths and play-act at being something we're not (the classic round peg in the square hole). Instead, we are meant to search until we find what we belong to.
The Truth Tellers aa 30x48
She is often eccentric, somewhat wild. She may be someone who people hate to hear but learn to listen to. She's the one who has, "... been doing it all wrong until people discover she's been doing it all right all along." She works from passion and intuition. She touches people--inspires them, brings them to life.
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