The stories we create
Your mind is a storyteller. Every day, it writes scripts you never asked for, yet you live as if they were absolute truth. Not just passing thoughts, but entire narratives: explanations, judgments, predictions. They shape how you see yourself, others, and the world.
These inner stories are stitched together from memory, upbringing, trauma, culture, victories, and defeats. The brain craves meaning, so it weaves fragments into tales that give us identity and a sense of control in a chaotic world. But meaning is not the same as truth. And too often, these stories become invisible cages. They don’t just describe our life, they limit it.
Think about it: how many times have you convinced yourself you’re not ready, not worthy, not capable? How often have you judged or retreated, not because reality demanded it, but because a story whispered it was so? These fictions steal opportunities, sabotage relationships, and blind us to the beauty of the present. The tragedy is not that the walls exist, it’s that we decorate them, defend them, and call them home.
Yet here lies the great liberation: you are not the story. These narratives are constructs, thoughts you can question, rewrite, or release. Beneath them is something deeper, untouched: a presence that doesn’t need to justify, explain, or defend. A silence that is not empty, but full, full of awareness, full of possibility, full of you. This essence existed before any story and remains long after they fade.
When you loosen your grip on the story, even briefly, you step into truth. Life expands. You meet each moment freshly, without filters. You stop narrating and start living. You stop clinging to who you think you should be and remember who you truly are.
So, pause. Notice the story. Hold it lightly. Let it dissolve in awareness. Then ask yourself: Is this narrative helping me grow, or holding me back?
Because the question is not whether you have stories, you always will. The question is, will you remain their prisoner, or will you become their author? You were never meant to live in a cage of thought. You were meant to live in the freedom of awareness. You are not the story. You are the awareness beneath it!
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Author: Maurice "Mao" Correa
Website: pathtoone.com
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Oooh, this is so powerful, Maurice! Thank you for spelling this out so beautifully. This will be food for meditation for many, many days (years?) to come!
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