Stories, Dreams, Legends or Truth?

     The prime human instinct is survival, followed closely by sustenance and self protection.     When these are satisfied and ensured, the soul craves love and the mind yearns for stories.     Interwoven with the need for imaginary diversion come the two questions of "Who Am I?", and "Why Am I Here?"


Myths, Fables and Heroic Tales.

      Unfathomable questions that people ask themselves inevitably lead to a belief in some unseen supernatural powers, and so religion is born.     Explanations turn into stories, which may be some attempt to find an answer, or at the same time carry with them ancestral memories of heroic deeds by half forgotten warriors and adventurers.     Thus divine faith and folk tales go hand in hand, as the tales are handed down from generation to generation.

     Legends therefore, are often the means of teaching morals and divine faith, while in reverse religion uses them in the form of parables as an exemplary lesson, or to make people think and work out the meaning for themselves.

     The inquisitive intellect is fertile ground for the seeds of colourful legends, and will absorb story after story, in its eternal search for mental stimulation, truth and answers.     It cannot help but advance quickly to a higher level.    The idle mind that looks for nothing more than sustenance and sterile pleasure is doomed to linger for eons in the depths of monotony, forever repeating the same hopeless, hapless and tedious life time.

     

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Created on ... March 10, 2001
Updated on ... March 25, 2003