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• What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.

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  Kindness, Mean, Compassion

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• I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

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  Freedom, Fear Nothing

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1963). “Japan, China”

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• My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

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  Stars, Soul, World

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• The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

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  Feet, Stills, Standing

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• 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.

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  Country, Eye, Sea

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

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  Color, Paradise, Paint

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• Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

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  Change, Eye, Opportunity

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

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  Faith, Tree, Almonds

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.

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  Morning, Blessed, Son

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• The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom.

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  Music, Soul, Balance

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• Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

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  Satisfaction, Sin, Habit

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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  Art, Believe, Creativity

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later that you understand.

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  Stars, Animal, Men

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• I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

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  Past, Looks, Astonishment

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

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  Motivational, Success, Faith

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• I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free .

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  Heart, Mind, Do Not Fear

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'

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  Eye, Men, Doe

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!

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

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  Inspirational, Photography, Cutting

  "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 412), 2006.

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• Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

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  Prayer, Hands, Soul

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

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  Dream, Ephemeral, Mud

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

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  Children, Flower, Long

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• The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

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  Inspirational, Real, Eye

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• You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

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  Men, Doors, Forever

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