To understand the narrative character of one’s own life is therefore to understand its inherent mysticism.*
James Carse
Sometimes a prayerful, painful approach to a difficult day may mean stopping and starting a hundred times until we learn, like a virtuoso, the thorough, attentive, rhythmic presence of the true musician.
David Whyte
The most powerful of stories–
Those with the complexity
and tenacity of a myth,
Form around an experience
of awe and wonder,
Whether awesome or awful.
The story’s power is forged
in talent and grit,
In the struggle
and discomfort
of living our tale into the everyday,
Proffering into someone’s world.
I saw that those who are supposed to be powerless – writers and scholars, grass-roots organisers and movements, visionaries, the disparaged and overlooked – have changed the world again and again.^
*James Carse’s Breakfast At the Victory;
**David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea;
^Rebecca Solnit’s No Straight Road Takes You There.
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