Once Upon a Sublime... 

the Gift of Stories

We wake up in the morning anticipating the narrative of our day and go to sleep at night to dream in stories.  Stories are all around us & they have power. They are what move us, make us feel alive, delight us, touch our hearts, teach us, inspire, motivate and challenge us!  We use storytelling to share our experiences, to connect, to empathize and to make sense of our lives as we bond with each other.  Everybody has a story and it’s in the process of sharing our stories that we are able to raise our understanding and consciousness as one human race.

"Stories are a communal currency of humanity." 

- Tahir Shah

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-Maya Angelou

“No matter what you do in your life, what you create, what career you have… your greatest creation is always going to be your life’s story.”

-Jonathan Harris

"A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story."

- Anthony De Mello

“The Christian faith grew through story – not text.  Only later did the stories become Scripture.  While the Scriptures must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.“

– Erwin Ncmanus

“Let him who would move the world first move himself. ”

-Socrates

“The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic ‘right-brain’ thinkers.” 

-Daniel Pink

“Tell me the facts and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in heart forever.” – Native American Proverb

“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world.”

– Robert McKee

“Words are how we think; stories are how we link.”

-Christina Baldwin

“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”

– Dalai Lama

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.”

-Abraham Lincoln

“Listening is the secret to discover great stories.”

– Fyrefly London

“Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”

– Brene Brown