Quotes:

“To be a person is to have a story to tell” - Isak Dineson

"The story or poem brings us closer to the actual texture and intricacy of experience" - John Updike

“If you want to change the world, tell a different story” - Thomas King
“Stories are all we are” - Thomas King

"The universe is made of stories, not atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser

At times, presence of Spirit occurs and is vital - but not predictable.

Thomas King: The Truth About Stories: The truth about stories is that that’s all we are. The Nigerian story-teller Ben Okri says that “in a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories that are planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives... We each write our own story. If the story that you are acting out today is not the story that you want to live, you have the power to change it. No one else can or will do it for you. At the end of your life, you will either be happy with the story you have lived, or filled with remorse. The choice is yours.