I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.
BEN OKRIThis earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
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Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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