We must look at ourselves differently. We are freer than we think. We haven't begun to live yet. The man whose light has come on in his head, in his … - Ben Okri

There are many reasons why babies cry when they are born, and one of them is the sudden separation from the world of pure dreams, where all things are made of enchantment, and where there is no suffering.

We are victims of censorship within when we do not let ourselves think the thoughts which our flesh recoils from, or let conscience speak that which the heart feels to be unacceptable, or when we give ourselves excellent reasons for not participating in this grand drama of our interconnected lives.

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.