We are greater than our despair. The negative aspects of humanity are not the most real and authentic; the most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering. We are best defined by the mystery that we are still here, and can still rise upwards, still create better civilisations, that we can face our raw realities and that we will survive the greater despair that the greater future might bring.
'Turn on Your Light', Ben Okri











