At times it feels as though we have an addiction to our repeating life patterns. It can seem like a bad habit—we find ourselves speaking and thinking in a certain pattern over and over. We have an addiction to a repeating story. Healing has to go beyond the stories that you make up about yourself and others. In reading A Course in Miracles, one realizes that intimacy goes much deeper than the stories.
Stories are often used to get attention, for control, pride, or to feel better than others. You can let go of the old purpose for telling the story and find a new purpose for using words. David Hoffmeister lightheartedly refers to the movie I Heart Huckabees and to his experiences with his grandmother to point out the futility of telling stories. ACIM is telling us that the use of words needs to have a purpose, and in this path you are asked to use stories to inspire and to bless.