Story by Story

Lore Pemberton

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

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You must inquire what experiment the self wants to make…You see, the body is meant to live; and your self has a very particular purpose with it.

~ Jung

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…We have a very narrow window of opportunity to get it right, and to get it right we first have to imagine a new world, story by story.

We need to tell new stories to describe who we are in relation to the land, to honor what’s been lost, to help us understand our kinships, to affirm what we care about, to explore the difference between right and wrong, moral and immoral.

~ Kathleen Dean Moore

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At a certain moment in his (Nietzche’s) life, the idea came to him of what he called “the love of your fate.” Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.”

~ Joseph Campbell

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… The cave has always been a sacred place in former ages. Long after man no longer lived in caves, they remained sanctuaries. They were, so to speak, the womb of the earth goddess, or the goddess of nature. So the cave symbolizes the depth of the inner nature.