I am a storyteller. The type that went from place to place, gathered people in the square and transported them, inspired them, woke them up, shook their insides around so that they could resettle in a new pattern, a new way of being. It is a tradition that believes that the story speaks to the soul, not the ego... to the heart, not the head. In today’s world, we yearn so to ’understand’, to conquer with our mind, but it is not in the mind that a mythic story dwells. Donna Jacobs Sife

 

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Ursula K. LeGuin

 

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Barry Lopez, in Crow and Weasel

 

"Stories tell us of what we already knew and forgot, and remind us of what we haven’t yet imagined."  Anne Watson