Quotes About Zorba

#1. There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba

Nikos Kazantzakis

#2. That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

Rajneesh

#3. Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

Rajneesh

#4. I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

Marianne Williamson

#5. Zorba sees everything everyday as if for the first time.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#6. Don't be a spiritualist and don't be a materialist: be both. Don't be a Zorba and don't be a Buddha; be both: Zorba the Buddha. Enjoy all that God has showered on you.

Osho

#7. There is no need to choose. Why not live choicelessly? Why not live all that life makes available to you? Don't be a spiritualist and don't be a materialist: be both. Don't be a Zorba and don't be a Buddha; be both: Zorba the Buddha. Enjoy all that God has showered on you. That's

Osho

#8. Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but he has no wings. He cannot fly into the sky. He has roots but no wings.

Rajneesh

#9. The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Rajneesh

#10. ... Man's heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink. - The Narrator.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#11. My existence is enough gift of grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! - The Narrator.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#13. There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Bernard Baruch

#14. Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

William H Gass

#15. If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

Pablo Picasso

#16. The best path through life is the highway.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#17. Luck is blind, they say. It can't see where it's going and keeps running into people ... and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#18. A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.

Ronald Reagan

#19. The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

Jonathan Haidt

#20. Men die. It's practically what they're for.

Catherynne M Valente