[Dialogue] Zorba Quotes for Len

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From: Beret Griffith <beretgriffith at charter.net>
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Sent: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 7:13 pm
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Love Saviors of God. Back in the 90's I created a weekend retreatfor myself to create reflective time and...retreats were expensive. Iread 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 isthen burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  Weshould all be thankful for those people who rekindle the innerspirit.  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." -- NikosKazantzakis
> 
> "God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the manwho can
> recognize him in all his disguises." -- Nikos Kazantzakis,Zorba the
> Greek
> 
> "This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like ahorse
> as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to needthem
> and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to yourleft
> and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that inyour
> heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become afairy
> tale." -- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
> 
> "A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cutthe
> 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.' Andthe
> almond tree blossomed."-- Nikos Kazantzakis, Report toGreco
> 
> "Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes whichsee
> reality." -- Nikos Kazantzakis
> 
> "For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate thegreat laws
> of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, butwe
> should confidently obey the eternal rhythm." -- NikosKazantzakis,
> Zorba the Greek
> 
> "How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, aroast
> chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . .All
> that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is asimple,
> frugal heart." -- Nikos Kazantzakis
> 
> "All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-tosee and
> touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle theglobe,
> observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiableappetite,
> to see everything for the first time and for the last time, castinga
> slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel theriches
> deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according totheir
> pleasure, until time passes them at last through its finesieve,
> straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows." --Nikos
> Kazantzakis, Report to Greco
> 
> "True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges overwhich they
> invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their
> crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown." --
> Nikos Kazantzakis
> 
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