Story Impacts 28 May 2008
Posted by mecca in ABUSHARIF, Arts, Psychology.trackback
I came across this nice quote on the impact of stories and what they do in human life. The Quran and most other scriptures employ stories that carry urgent meanings. It remains a marvel how we humans, creatures of common flesh and mean fluids, can be so suspended, arrested, taken, and moved by stories.
Thank God for stories—for those who have them, for those who tell them, for those who devour them as the soul sustenance that they are. Stories give shape to experience and allow us to go through life unblind. Without them, everything that happens would float around, undifferentiated. None if it would mean anything. Once you have a version of what happened, all the other good stuff about being human comes into play. You can laugh, feel awe, commit a passionate act, get pissed, want to change things.
— Tomas Alex Tizon
Salam Ibrahim,
It’s interesting how we often rely on numerical facts to provide heft to our arguments. But in the end, what remain memorable are stories, which may be a form of emotional truth.
I think Barack Obama understands this really well – his speeches are laced with stories that strike the right chords, and his ability to deploy his own story is superb.