stories

All we have is compassion and stories.

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.

Someone is pounding on a door within you and hoping for an answer. They want to tell us the secret tale of ourselves. The stories we__e never told. Some African tribes believe if you were to tell someone your entire story the audience would actually become you. From then on, the only life the teller would have would be in and through the listener. Some believe this is the relationship between Jesus and his disciples. How I wished for my story to be blemish free. How I wished to be a good-natured soul giving back to the world, regardless of how broken I was. In the end, it__ those things we are willing to die to change that sculpt our story. Some people open the floodgates of their minds and hearts so memories burst forth like water through a breached dam. Pieces of our lives can be found among the floating wreckage, and somewhere, the presence of God hovers over the surface of the deep. Inside, I am treading, biding my time, waiting for the magic I thought I owned as a child. Many seek this enchantment. I sought my wife, daughter and the power to conjure hope.

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

I am not here to compete in the war of words, I am here to nurture the future of stories.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.

Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.

I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.

The real protagonist of the story, however, is the magic ring, because it is the movements of the ring that determine those of the characters and because it is the ring that establishes the relationships between them. Around the magic object there forms a kind of force field that is in fact the territory of the story itself. We might say that the magic object is an outward and visible sign that reveals the connection between people or between events. . . We might even say that in a narrative any object is always magic.