"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his [or her] own life story." John Barth
Browsing category: Thought
"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts." Salman Rushdie
"Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories." Mary Catherine Bateson
I studied Shakespeare for 10 years and taught it for 5 and secretly believe the meaning of life is threaded through the magical words of his plays and poems. There is everything in his corpus of work. The blood and gore of the beastly Titus Andronicus, the historical drama of Richard II, the ghoulish terror of Macbeth, the expansive power of love in Antony and Cleopatra, the wit and folly of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the terrifying agony of the dissolving sanity of King Lear. Believing the messages of life can be found in
"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far." Swami Vivekananda
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler." Fredrich Nietzsche
"The universe is made up of stories, not atoms." Muriel Ruheyser
"Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.” Caroline Myss
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzu
"Thought can organise the world so well that you are no longer able to see it." Anthony de Mello