Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once, beautiful and brave.  Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something that needs our love.

"Stories are medicine.
They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything -
we need only listen"

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.