Clarissa Pinkola Estés: The Doors to the Wild Self

The doors to the world of the wild Self 

are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, 

that is a door, if you have an old, old story, 

that is a door. If you love the sky and the water 

so much you almost cannot bear it, 

that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, 

a full life, a sane life, that is a door.

 
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype