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"We are, in ways small and great,

The figure, the myths and legends

That we ourselves have invented.

Our dreams are self-portraits.

Our myths, our heroic legends,

Are the concealed autobiography

Of the human race 

And its struggle

Through darkness to light

And through higher darkness again...

Human kind cannot live long

With the notion

Or the reality

Of timelessness

Only in the mind.

Only in the spirit.

With us, things must have a beginning.

Theatre grew from ritual,

And ritual grew out of the silence.

Here, now, is an origin.

We are poised always at the threshold

Of an unknown, unwritten, unforeseen act.

Let's gather ourselves together,

Clear our minds,

Make ourselves present to ourselves

And to our age.

That we be focussed

On this stage.

That we concentrate.

And listen.

That we prepare ourselves

In seriousness

And with joy.

Let's be wonderfully awake

For what we are going to create,

To make happier,

In this mass co-scripting

Of the future."

Ben Okri Mental Fight (An Anti-Spell for the 21st Century)

from Time To Be Real Parts III & IV