Ben Okri - The Joys of Storytelling (Episode 3)

Continuing my celebration of Ben Okri’s wonderful collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, published in 1997. Episode 3 here!

I love this book, it’s a poetic and beautiful homage to storytelling, writing, creativity and freedom, presented with a positive spirit of human flourishing and connectivity.

My focus here is a quote from the essay, The Joys of Storytelling 1.

Here's the quote:

"How many of us try to live with a sense of beauty about the shape of our lives, the same aesthetic sense that novelists and storytellers bring to the shape of their art? And yet there is a hidden message here - the awareness, shared by not a few historical figures, of the links and causes and consequences of our actions, the mathematics of fate; and the sense - ultimately - of living a unique and fascinating destiny."

From the essay, The Joys of Storytelling 1, in the collection, A Way of Being Free, page 47.

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