“Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.” MadeExistenceOur LivesCenturyAncientFolksMythTalesNarrativeTransformedFabric Book:Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale Source: Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
“I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.” ThinkingWritingHas BeensStoriesProcessOur LivesMythNarrativeMake SenseRewriting Author:Sam Keen
“Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.... storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which we cannot escape. Life, Pascal said, is like living in a prison from which every day fellow prisoners are taken away to be executed. We are all, like Scheherazade, under sentence of death, and we all think of our lives as narratives, with beginnings, middles and ends.” ThinkingHumansSaidEndsTakenOur LivesBloodHuman NatureBreathsFellowsPrisonSentencesStorytellingNarrativePrisonerCirculationNarrationPascal Author:A. S. Byatt
“We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.” LifeStoriesEnjoyUnderstandingWonderOur LivesLaysStorytellingNarrativeLive LifeMovieFilmmakingLiving My LifeWatchersLive Life HappyLayout Author:Donald Glover
“There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.” ThinkingMeanCharacterStoriesPsychologyOur LivesNarrativeParadigmMain Characters Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.” LifeOur LivesStructurePatternsNarrative Book:The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience Source: The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience