‘A life story is a “personal myth” about who you are deep down – where we come from, how we got this way, and what it all means.  Our life stories are who we are.  They are our identity.  Life story is not, however, an objective account.  A life story is a carefully shaped narrative that is replete with strategic forgetting and skilfully spun meanings.’*

‘The dreamer is consciousness itself – who you are.  To awaken within the dream is our purpose now.  When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream emerges.  This is the new earth.’**

Between these two conditions there spans a journey of great challenges, for we must face those details of our lives we’re prone to leave out, or may not even be aware of.  I don’t think we’ll ever fully know who we are – that would require us to be perfect and complete.  Things none of us will be.  But there is a greater integrity and wholeness to faithfully explore – every day bringing us to the possibility of learning, which is an attitude of openness, moving us beyond WYSIATI (“what you see is all there is”).

Most of all, it’s in our interactions with others that we learn most of all:

‘You may ask, “Who, actually, is doing the changing?  And the answer is the relationship.  Because in the arena of possibility, everything occurs in that context.’^

Imagine the kind of change that can take place in those who enter into a conversation of great openness, in which everyone learns about themselves and each other, as well as the subject in hand and the possibilities which lie before the newly formed “company.”

(*From Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal.)
(**From Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth.)
(^From Rosamund and Benjamin Zander’s The Art of Possibility.)