I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes in Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

 

To Practice This Thought:
Choose one story about a person in your family and turn it over in your mind until you discover how it has brought laughter or tears into your life.

 

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