Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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