All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
There is something in human beings that loves stories.
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.
We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.
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