A spirituality without story is like a body without breath...

At a time when our stories have been shamed and shunned in the spiritual community, it is all the more imperative to revive them and make luminous their sacred, transformative properties. The past is not an illusion, as many would suggest. It is the ground of our being, the karmic field for our soul's transformation, a living vibration that echoes on, the mysteery that threads right through our history. Story is where we come from, Story is what roots us in the present. Story is how we arriiritve at the next place intact. A spirituality without story is like a body without breath. Dead to the world. - Jeff Brown, Grounded Spirituality