Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
BEN OKRIBeware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
BEN OKRITo anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
BEN OKRIReading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
BEN OKRIThe most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
BEN OKRIWhen you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
BEN OKRIStories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRIDon’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
BEN OKRIMagic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
BEN OKRIThe law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
BEN OKRIa dream can be the highest point of a life
BEN OKRIWhat you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
BEN OKRIPeople are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
BEN OKRII went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
BEN OKRIThe magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
BEN OKRIMaybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
BEN OKRIMagic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
BEN OKRI