When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.