[Dialogue] Zorba Quotes for Len

[Beret Griffith]

Love Saviors of God. Back in the 90's I created a weekend retreat for 
myself to create reflective time and...retreats were expensive. I 
read the entire book out loud, at one time, standing.

Beret Griffith

At 12:00 PM 10/26/2011, you wrote:
>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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