Why are stories so important?. What are the stories we say ourselves?. We tell others?. Once again, why is this so important?.

"Because we live by the stories we tell ourselves...."

-mcr

Sensei Myriam

What is it that is important?....

"A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

-Mohandas Gandhi

Here is a little but very important story I received today,

This little bird had his wing over his eye and he was crying. 

The Owl said to the bird, " You are crying."

"Yes", said the little bird, and he pulled his wing away from his eye.

"Oh, I see", said the Owl. "You are crying because the big bird pecked out your eye."

And the little bird said, "No, I'm not crying because the big bird pecked out my eye. I am crying because I let him."

"It's easy to let influence shape our lives, to let associations determine our direction, to let pressures overwhelm us, and to let tides take us. The big question is : Are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?"

From Jim Rohn Weekly Ezine - Issue 523

" Games are a compromise between intimacy

and keeping intimacy away."

-Eric Berne

Sometimes we play games to avoid intimacy. And intimacy is not "sexual". Intimacy is a need we all have to see and be seeing as who we are and nothing more. And yet we don't dare it. Why?. This is the question we must ask ourselves. And seek our answer.

Sensei Myriam

" Forgiveness doesn't change the past ,

but it does enlarged the future."

-Paul Boese

" Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry on his own designs,

and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others." 

-Eric Berne

May we all pay attention of the games we play....

Sensei Myriam

"...Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet

confinement of your aloneness to learn

anything or anyone

that does not bring you alive

is too small for you."

-David Whyte

"I know fear

I have looked into it's eyes

and I found myself 

looking back."

-mcr