If you've lost focus, just ... by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, an American Poet

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“If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. 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.”

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Name: Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jan 27, 1945

Profession: Poet

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This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

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How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

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If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. 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.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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