Ben Okri Quotes

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.

The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.

Everything in life is about timing. I've been able to have my experiences and learn from them and kind of figure out the thing that works for me and is best for me, and that's all I can really say.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'