Freedom

I recently read ‘The Freedom Artist’ by Ben Okri, a longstanding favourite author. As I’ve come to expect with Okri’s books, its messages are multi-layered, and its narrative has a dream-like (and in this case, also nightmarish) quality. One of the central questions the story poses is: are we in a prison of our own construction? Incarceration can take many forms – the cell walls may be economic or political; the window bars may be socio-cultural or psychological. The great surprise is, we may not realise that we are freedom deprived. The best artists hold up a mirror to society.

— Wayne Visser

From Purpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living, Volume 4. Buy on Lulu ↗