Around the Story Tree
Oct. 20th, 2011 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
… did so, most likely, because with each telling, he was brought deeper into revelation.
Sitting here, I'm wondering if this is the vehicle by which hindsight works. We tell a story of something that happened in our past (and it doesn't have to be to another person, it can be just retelling the story to ourselves), and in doing so we suddenly understand what it is that was meant to be the lesson in the experience.
Of course though, we have to be able to let go of our own preconceptions and expectations in order to do that with any amount of integrity or objectivity. Don't know that I could do that – let go of a sense of self in the retelling, especially not because, as they said once in UC: Undercover (great show by the way, if you didn't see it, you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxyMeglet#p/c/326CEEF8E28503FC ). Stories grow with time.
Bears some serious thought – pardon me.
When was the last time you told your story?
--Question put to the sick by a Native American Medicine Man
… did so, most likely, because with each telling, he was brought deeper into revelation.
Sitting here, I'm wondering if this is the vehicle by which hindsight works. We tell a story of something that happened in our past (and it doesn't have to be to another person, it can be just retelling the story to ourselves), and in doing so we suddenly understand what it is that was meant to be the lesson in the experience.
Of course though, we have to be able to let go of our own preconceptions and expectations in order to do that with any amount of integrity or objectivity. Don't know that I could do that – let go of a sense of self in the retelling, especially not because, as they said once in UC: Undercover (great show by the way, if you didn't see it, you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxyMeglet#p/c/326CEEF8E28503FC ). Stories grow with time.
Bears some serious thought – pardon me.
