[Dialogue] Zorba Quotes for Len

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For a 2011 version of Saviors of God, read Evolutionary  Enlightenment by 
Andrew Cohen. IMHO
 
Jann McGuire
 
P.S. Fred and I got to visit Kazantzakis' village on Crete and his grave  
site in Iraklio. The first quote below is his epitaph.
 
 
In a message dated 10/26/2011 10:01:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
jfwiegel at yahoo.com writes:

Of all  the old study books, Saviors of God is still with me the most.

Jim  Wiegel
Jfwiegel at yahoo.com

In everyone's life, at some time, our  inner fire goes out.  It is then 
burst into flame by an encounter with  another human being.  We should all be 
thankful for those people who  rekindle the inner spirit.  Albert Schweitzer

On Oct 26, 2011, at  9:40, steve har <stevehar11201 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nikos  Kazantzakis quotes: Chocolate, vanilla choose
> 
> "I hope  nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." -- Nikos Kazantzakis
> 
>  "God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can
>  recognize him in all his disguises." -- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the
>  Greek
> 
> "This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to  work like a horse
> as if you had every ambition. To live far from men,  not to need them
> and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the  land to your left
> and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden  that in your
> heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has  become a fairy
> tale." -- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
>  
> "A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut  the
> rope and be free."
> 
> -- Nikos Kazantzakis
>  
> "You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."
> 
> --  Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
> 
> "I said to the almond  tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the
> almond tree blossomed."--  Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco
> 
> "Since we cannot change  reality, let us change the eyes which see
> reality." -- Nikos  Kazantzakis
> 
> "For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to  violate the great laws
> of nature. We should not hurry, we should not  be impatient, but we
> should confidently obey the eternal rhythm." --  Nikos Kazantzakis,
> Zorba the Greek
> 
> "How simple and  frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast
> chestnut, a  wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All
> that is  required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple,
> frugal  heart." -- Nikos Kazantzakis
> 
> "All my life one of my greatest  desires has been to travel-to see and
> touch unknown countries, to swim  in unknown seas, to circle the globe,
> observing new lands, seas,  people, and ideas with insatiable appetite,
> to see everything for the  first time and for the last time, casting a
> slow, prolonged glance,  then to close my eyes and feel the riches
> deposit themselves inside me  calmly or stormily according to their
> pleasure, until time passes them  at last through its fine sieve,
> straining the quintessence out of all  the joys and sorrows." -- Nikos
> Kazantzakis, Report to Greco
>  
> "True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which  they
> invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated  their
> crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their  own." --
> Nikos Kazantzakis
> 
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