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There are small narratives and there are large ones. The great stories, reaching back millennia, store our best secrets. They make a coherent weave out of a vast tangle of personal narrative threads. Their archetypes represent whatever significance humankind has so far discovered in itself. If as individuals we are large enough to engage with these archetypal themes, we can ride the imagination into far greater expressiveness of being.

from 'Spinning a Narrative Thread'