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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:57:56 -0500
From: Kathe Wittenberg
Subject: quote


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Along with being a psychotherapist, I also do editing and writing=20
support for doctoral dissertations and masters' thesis papers.

This quote was in a dissertation I'm working on and I thought I'd share=20=

it with the list. The dissertation doesn't have anything to do=20
w/storytelling, but I liked the quote. Don't have the page #, that's an=20=

error in the citation... but it will come.

Namaste,

Kathe


All stories are full of bias and uniqueness; they mix fact with=20
meaning. This is the root of their power. Stories allow us to see=20
something familiar through new eyes. We become in that moment a guest=20
in someone else=92s life, and together with them sit at the feet of =
their=20
teacher. The meaning we may draw from someone else=92s story may be=20
different from the meaning they themselves have drawn. No matter. Facts=20=

bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.=A0=A0

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Remen, R. (1996). Kitchen table wisdom: Stores that heal. New York:=20
Riverhead.=

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