3 Quotes & Sayings By Melanie Tem

Melanie Tem is the author of the best-selling inspirational book The Power of Love: The Secret to Finding and Keeping Love. Since its publication in 2006, the book has sold over two million copies and was translated into more than a dozen languages. The Power of Love has been featured on the Today show, Oprah, and Dr. Oz Read more

Melanie has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and has been quoted in People Magazine and Oprah Magazine. She is also a regular contributor to Oprah's O magazine.

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Stories are masks of God.That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth. Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them. Melanie Tem
Everything changes your life.
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Everything changes your life. Melanie Tem