A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. … - Ben Okri

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.

In that land of beginnings spirits mingled with the unborn. We could assume numerous forms. Many of us were birds. We knew no boundaries. There was much feasting, playing, and sorrowing. We feasted much because of the beautiful terrors of eternity. We played much because we were free. And we sorrowed much because there were always those amongst us who had just returned from the world of the Living. They had returned inconsolable for all the love they had left behind, all the suffering they hadn't redeemed, all that they hadn't understood, and for all that they had barely begun to learn before they were drawn back to the land of origins.

Quiet people are the most dangerous.

Centuries of being attached to the machine had atrophied the languages of the earth.