the universe is made up of stories not atoms.
--muriel rukseyer

The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.
Jean Houston

I’ll break open the story and
tell you what is there. Then, like
the others that have fallen out onto the sand,
I will finish with it,
and the wind will take it away.
Nisa, a !Kung San Woman, 1969

'You know the rule: when falling, dive.'
--joseph cambell

You grow, not by what you gain of outer fruit, but by the inner unfolding necessary for your success in the struggle.
--annie besant