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“The primary, unspoken objective of our storytelling, however, is to provide an appropriate interpretation of our own life. The goal is not just to discover a world or provide an interpretation of the world that allows us to live in it but rather to discover and interpret a world that allows us to live with ourselves. We retell incidents, relate occurrences, and spin tales in order to learn what occurred, especially to me. Such an interpretive process makes the world more hospitable. By telling what had happened to them, for example, the Rwandan women were able to fashion a world that included their experience.”
― Herbert Anderson, Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals: Weaving Together the Human and the Divine

“Storytelling not only makes us human; it creates vulnerability.”
― Herbert Anderson, Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals: Weaving Together the Human and the Divine