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“The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.”

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Jack Zipes is a renowned scholar in the field of literature, with a focus on fairy tales, folktales, and children's literature. His work has had a profound impact on literary studies and education. more

“People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.”

Source: Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.”

Ifs Giving Long Sometimes Enough Reality Together Divine Birth Opposites Being True Tension Vessel

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.”

People Humans Wells Persons States Might Human Beings Caught Behave Destructive Neurotic Neurosis Bewitched

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.”

Men Mystery Divine Skills Achievement Capacity Miracle Possession Myth Defined Divinity Sparks Unusual Identical

Book:Creation Myths: Revised Edition

Source: Creation Myths: Revised Edition

“As physics is a mental reconstruction of material processes, perhaps a physical reconstruction of psychic processes is possible in nature itself.”

Process Materials Physics Psychics Reconstruction

Book:Psyche and Matter

Source: Psyche and Matter

“If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities”

Ifs Men Life Inspirational Mind Has Beens Turns Creative Rich Possibility Adventure Devotion Dull Unconscious Instruction Renewal Stale Unending Creativeness

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.”

Moments Individual Greater Events Conscious Cosmic Shaking

Book:Psyche and Matter

Source: Psyche and Matter

“It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.”

World Visionaries Beauty Poetry

Author:Maria Tatar

“Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.”

Use Hands Language Magic Objects Draws Storytelling Attributes Enchantment Sleight Of Hand

Book:Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

Source: Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

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