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martha beau
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different
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Psychologist David Feinstein describes living mythically this way: “To live mythically is to seek guidance from our dreams, imagination and other reflections of our inner being, as well as from the most inspiring people, practices, and institutions of our society. To live mythically is to cultivate an ever-deepening relationship with the universe
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björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
Another useful way to speak of soul is as story. Psychologist Jean Houston, for example, speaks of the larger story each person is born to live. This larger story — much deeper than your prosaic personal history — expresses the ultimate meaning of your life, its true significance, in the same way a myth communicates truth or gnosis. To be living
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