Human beings can tell stories; I am human, therefore, I can tell stories.
When people hear a story they often ask: “But, is it true?”
Hearing the question: is it true?; the sage must ask: “What is truth to you?”
The question: “What is truth?” is a much larger question …
When a person hears a story, and accepts the story as true, the person believes the story.
Believing the story, a person may have faith in the story.
Compassion is empathy in action. Sometimes compassion may be allowing someone to have their story — in spite of evidence to the contrary.
Evidence reveals the underlying pattern of fiction and fact.
It is what it is; whatever it is, it is.