[Dialogue] Zorba Quotes for Len

[Len Hockley]

Thanks Steve,  I think it's Totie Fruitie

*"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the
rope and be free."*

Len

On 10/26/2011 9:40 AM, steve har 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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