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A Time for New Dreams QUOTES

A Time for New Dreams QUOTES

1 " Knowledge of self ought to be the great project of our lives. Knowing ourselves we will know others. Only by knowing ourselves can we begin to undo the madness we unleash on the world in our wars, our destruction of the environment, our divisions, our desire to dominate others, the poverty we create and exploit. Only through self-knowledge can we reverse the damage we do with all the worldly knowledge we have, which has been only a higher ignorance. "

― Ben Okri , A Time for New Dreams

2 " What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them. "

― Ben Okri , A Time for New Dreams

3 " 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. "

― Ben Okri , A Time for New Dreams

4 " We ought to step out of our old, hard casing. We think that we are one kind of people, when in fact we are always creating ourselves. We are not fixed. We are constantly becoming, constantly coming into being. "

― Ben Okri , A Time for New Dreams