A Native American Creation Story
In the Beginning, the Great Spirit gave a box to all the animals. The box was painted with many sacred signs and symbols. Inside the box was a gift.
As the animals opened their boxes, all of creation tumbled out. Read more [...]
Here's my telling of a famous Zen story
There once was a man who was wandering in a grassland region. Some ways off, he saw a tiger and the tiger saw him. Both stood motionless staring at the other. Suddenly, the tiger bolted toward the man who started Read more [...]
There is a famous though likely apocryphal story of Ernest Hemingway wagering that he could write a story in six words. As one telling goes, he responded to his disbelieving takers with a six-word story that, indeed, had a beginning, a middle, and Read more [...]
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. ~ Barry Lopez
Great stories happen to those who can tell them. ~ Ira Glass
Martin Buber passes on a delightfully transformational Hasidic tale:
MY GRANDFATHER was paralyzed. Once he Read more [...]
Once upon a time a man was walking beside a wide river. He was meditating on the law of the Lord, for he believed that if he kept his mind fixed on spiritual thoughts all the time, he would achieve perfection.
Just then his thoughts were broken Read more [...]