“Your subconscious mind has the answer.”

“If you are confronted with a problem and you cannot see an immediate answer, assume that your subconscious has a solution and is waiting to reveal it to you.”

“If an answer does not come, turn the problem over to your deeper mind prior to sleep. Keep on turning your request over to your subconscious until the answer comes.”

“The response will be a certain ‘feeling’, an inner awareness, whereby you ‘know’ what to do. Guidance in all things comes as the still small voice within: It reveals all.”   Brian Adams, How to Succeed.

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty high above the reasoning mind, but on that path is all that you desire and require.” Florence Scovel Shinn (FSS) page 220.

“Prayer is telephoning to God, and intuition is God telephoning to you.” (FSS) page 337.

“‘Choose you this day whom ye will serve,’ the intellect or divine guidance.”  Joshua 24:15, (FSS) page 222.

“Let your intuition be your compass and it will always get you out of the woods.”(FSS)  page 337.

Florence Scovel Shinn, The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn, 4 Complete Books, The Game of Life, The Power of the Spoken Word, Your Word is Your Wand, The Secret of Success.

“He who would know the world

seek first

within his being’s depth;

He who would truly

know himself

develop interest in the world.”

Rudolf Steiner

How to Know Higher Worlds

“…To do this requires one to have a radical trust in God at work in his life or her life. As we embrace this trust, we find that the very force that shook our world and caused it to collapse around us – the force that we first resisted, then gradually accepted, and now align with – was the force that brought us home to our true Self. We are reminded of the man who said, “I prayed to God when the foundations of my life were being shaken…only to find that it was God that was shaking them!”

“So we begin to trust the ’shakings,’ and we no longer resist the force the crumbles the structure of our life. What we once called a tragedy, we now see as an opportunity for greater freedom, wisdom, and power – not to be feared, but actually welcomed.”

Robert Brumet, Finding Yourself in Transition, Using Life’s Changes for Spiritual Awakening, page 150.

“To hold joy, we may sometimes have to fight for it, we may have to strengthen ourselves and go full-bore, doing battle in whichever ways deem most shrewd. To prepare for siege, we may have to go without many comforts for the duration. We can go without most things for long periods of time, anything almost, but not our joy, not those handmade red shoes.” page 254

“…It is from a poem by Charles Simic and it is the ultimate instruction to us all: ‘He who cannot howl, will not find the pack.’ If you want to re-summon Wild Women, refuse to be captured. With instincts sharpened for balance-jump anywhere you like, howl at will, take what there is, find out all about it, let your eyes show your feelings, look into everything, see what you can see. Dance in red shoes, but make sure they’re the ones you made by hand. I can promise that you will become one vital women.” page 254

Read the story of The Red Shoes in “Self-preservation” on page 215 of Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

“Clear vision is like a man with a compass; he knows where he is going. Let intuition be your compass and it will always get you out of the woods. Even a man without a compass, led by intuition, would find his way out of the jungle, or be able to steer a ship at sea. Intuition will tell you to walk over the rope. It is amazing how people have overlooked their most important faculty-intuition. Always on man’s pathway is his message or lead. Often our leads seem trivial or silly. A person purely on the intellectual plane would dismiss them at once but the Truth student always has his spiritual ear to the ground, knowing he is receiving orders from the Infinite. The Bible speaks often of “the still small voice.” It is a voice which is not an actual voice, though sometimes actual words are registered on the inner ear.”

“When we ask for guidance and lay aside the reasoning mind we are tapping the Universal supply of all knowledge; anything necessary for you to know will be revealed to you. Some people are naturally intuitive and are always in contact with the Universal Intelligence, but by taking an affirmation we make a conscious contact. Prayer is telephoning to God, and intuition is God telephoning to you. Many people have a “busy wire” when God telephones and they don’t get the message. Your wire is “busy” when you are discouraged, angry, or resentful. You’ve heard the expression “I was so mad I couldn’t see straight.” We might add, “I was so mad I couldn’t hear straight.” Your negative emotions drown out the voice of intuition.

“When you are discouraged, angry, or resentful, is the time to make a statement of Truth, in order to get out of the woods of despair and limitation, for “Whosoever calleth on the name of the Lord shall be delivered!” There is a way out- “Reveal to me the way.”

“We must stop planning, plotting and scheming and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in Its own way. God-power is subtle, silent and irresistible. It levels mountains and fills in valleys and knows no defeat! Our part is to prepare for our blessings and follow our intuitive leads.”

“We now give Infinite Intelligence right-of-way.”

Florence Scovel Shinn, The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn, Four Complete Books, The Game of Life, The Power of the Spoken Word, Your Word is Your Wand, The Secret of Success, page 337 & 338.

“We are whole creatures in potential,

and the true purpose of desire is to unfold

that wholeness, to become what we can be.”

Eric Butterworth

Dancing on the rooftops in NYC.

“Strength does not come after one climbs the ladder or the mountain, not after one “makes it” -whatever that “it” represents. Strengthening oneself is essential to the process of striving-especially before and during-as well as after. It is my belief that attention to and devotion to the nature of soul represents the quintessential strength.”

“There is much afoot at any given time that can make a shambles of spirit and soul by attempting to destroy intent, or by pressuring one to forget the important questions; Questions such as, not only what are the pragmatics of a situation, but also “where is the soul in this matter?” One proceeds in life, gains ground, reverses injustice, and stands against the winds, through strength of spirit.”

“This strengthening, whether with words, prayer, contemplation of various kinds, or by other means, comes from a numen, a greatness that rests at the center of the psyche and yet is greater than the whole of the psyche. This numen is entirely accessible, must be attended to and nourished. Its existence, regardless of its many appellations, is an incontrovertible psychic fact.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PH.D., Women Who Run With The Wolves, Myths and Stores of the Wild Woman Archetypes, page 478.

Photo taken by Nicole Wolcott.

“As in the tale, (Sealskin, Soulskin – page 257), if we establish a regular practice of intentional solitude, we invite a conversation between ourselves and the wild soul that comes near to our shore. We do this not only just to ‘be near’ the wild and soulful nature, but as in the metaphysical tradition since time out of mind, the purpose of this union is for us to ask questions, and for the soul to advise.” page 293

“This means using one’s mind to summon the soul-self. Everyone has at least one familiar state of mind in which to effect this kind of solitude. For myself, solitude is rather  like a folded up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need. I sit at the feet of the great old trees of my childhood. From that vantage point, I ask my questions, receive my answers, then coalesce my woodland back down to the size of a love note till next time. The experience is immediate, brief, informative.” page 293

“After a period of time, the cumulative effect of intentional solitude begins to act like a vital respiratory system, a natural rhythm of adding knowledge, making minute adjustments, and deleting the unusable over and over again… Over time, as you practice, you will find yourself designing your own queries to the soul. Sometimes you may have only one question. Other times you may have none whatsoever and just wish to rest on the rock near the soul, breathing together.” page 295

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Women Who Run With The Wolves, Myths And Stories Of The Wild Woman Archetype.

Photo taken by Nicole Wolcott.

“When you really think about it, every cycle of change and period of individuation is about self-discovery. It is an opportunity to reflect, to integrate the past to allow ourselves to grow a little more. Of course, if we shut down when changes come, we don’t grow.  And life is all about growing; life is about becoming more and more of who we are and creating more and more of who we can become.”  page 134

“Letting go of the old and taking hold of the new is an integral part of living a fruitful and fulfilling life. When we hold on instead of letting go, we pay a big price. Mentally, emotionally, and physically we tie ourselves to the past instead of living in the present. Our souls feel stifled and unhappy.”  page 135

“Painful experiences of loss offer us special gifts: a deeper understanding of our soul and our purpose in life, the breaking open of our heart, the awakening of compassion, the mobilizing of courage… I have come to believe that many of us learn our greatest lessons of love through experience of loss. We feel the deep hurt of loss when someone dear to us moves on and we are alone and unsure of what to do next. It is at these moments that the tender hand of God may touch us because we are hurting, no longer captive to the habitual rhythms of our life and therefore more receptive to inner experience and divine guidance.”  page 156

Marilyn C. Barrick, Ph.D, Sacred Psychology Of Change, Life As A Voyage Of Transformation