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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Ben Okri

Maybe 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.
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Soul Stories Three
Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Around Destiny Expected Riddle Way
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
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Escape Life Press Strange
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Karma Law Simple
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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Destiny Dream Fate
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
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Age Giving Stories
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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Art Humanity Three
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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Inspiring Night Water
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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Law Police World
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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Hungry Rivers World
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing

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