# Quote — Ben Okri, Astonishing the Gods

> When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

- Author: [Ben Okri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri.md)
- Book: [Astonishing the Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/astonishing-the-gods.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Okri#Astonishing_the_Gods_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/astonishing-the-gods/when-you-stop

## More from this book

> I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/astonishing-the-gods/i-love-your.md)

> I kept looking forward the answer to things. I kept looking, and I never saw, and I became lost. I lost myself, lost my own reality.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/astonishing-the-gods/i-kept-looking.md)

> The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/astonishing-the-gods/the-law-is-simple.md)