[Dialogue] Zorba Quotes for Len

Thu Oct 27 11:58:56 EDT 2011

Good question.
Perhaps hell and heaven are in the NOW. Being present. Just pondering 
Mary

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On Oct 27, 2011, at 9:49 AM, James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Listening to the Healing Cancer World Summit (daughter in law has rectal cancer) as I read your message, Bill . . . 2 comments from the speaker:
> 
> Hopelessness is the killer, not cancer.
> 
> Then, later, he said:  People who know they are going to heaven have a better chance of surviving cancer because they know where they are going . . .
> 
> So, what is the relation between "going to heaven"  and "conquering hope" and "hopelessness"?
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> Jim Wiegel
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> --- On Thu, 10/27/11, Bill Schlesinger <pvida at whc.net> wrote:
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> From: Bill Schlesinger <pvida at whc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Zorba Quotes for Len
> To: "'Colleague Dialogue'" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
> Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011, 4:51 AM
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> Conquering hope – the greatest temptation.  Still.
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>  
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> Bill Schlesinger
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> From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Beret Griffith
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:07 PM
> To: Colleague Dialogue
> Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Zorba Quotes for Len
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>  
> 
> 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. 
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> Beret Griffith
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> At 12:00 PM 10/26/2011, you wrote:
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> 
> Of all the old study books, Saviors of God is still with me the most.
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> Jim Wiegel
> Jfwiegel at yahoo.com
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> 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
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> 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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