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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:

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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Ambulate Death Fly Gnawing Lift Spread Wing Winning
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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Consciously Cultivation Integrity Meditation Negative Spiritual Truth
Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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Compassion Empathy Ethical Love Possession Tool Trust
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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Creative Discipline Love Spiritual Vision Writing
Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Allow Heroically Live Meaningful Rise Triumphant
As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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Change Demonstrated Humanity May Quickly Slowly
An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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Accept Author Dance Idea Ignorance Invitation Language Moving Step
Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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Angel Destiny Faithfully Human Shine Star
As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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Admit Hear Modern News Sad War
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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Disease Earthquake Peace Sky Smoldering War
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art Country Examiner Fame Michael Jackson National
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Attitude Bodies Face Past Soul Time Wear
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Measured Nelson People Profound Question Unique
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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Concept Dancing Designate Human Quality Reality
As goes love so goes life.
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Angel Beautiful Goes Life Love
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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Conscious Elevated Peace Political State Volunteer
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Children Dragonflies Exist Fall Garden Mother Pink Refuse Scorpion Unless
The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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Definite Enhance Freedom Harvest Principle Sustain
This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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Human Love Soul Strong Unconditional Valentine
In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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Book Cloud Hand Page Pearl Snow Winter
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Art Looking Mirror Poet See Sing
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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Draining Exceeding Exercise Idea Peeple Unconditional War
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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Burns Cool Face Fear Lighting Passion Peace
And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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Ego Mistake Operation Scheme Transform
Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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Blood Continue Flesh Law Man Men Place Technicalities Value
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Condem Fate Humanity Later Often Save Sooner Voting
Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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Egoless Humility Rainbow Shine Shining World

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