Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

“What is love?
It's not empathy, nor kindness.
Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes.
Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes.
But love takes just one.
The two get together into one.
They don't separate.
The "I" and the "you" disappear.
I LOVE MEANS I DISAPPEAR..”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Ποιό είναι πάνω από τα λόγια; Η πράξη. Ποιό είναι πάνω από τη πράξη; Η σιωπή”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης

“Η τελειότητα είναι μια δύσκολη, επικίντυνη στιγμιαία ισορροπία απάνω στο χάος, λίγο να ρίξεις βάρος δεξιά η αριστερά, γκρεμίζεται.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Δεν υπάρχει σήμερα μεγαλήτερη αμαρτία από το να παραδίνεσαι στη γοητευτική μέθη της ωραιότητας.”
― Νίκος Καζατσάκης

“Δεν μπορείς να υποτάξεις το χάος μέσα σου και να δημιουργήσεις τον ακέραιο λόγο.”
― Νίκος Καζατζάκης

“Τι είμαστε εμείς" φώναξε χαρούμενος "παρά οι καραγκίοζηδες του Θεού, που γεννηθήκαμε για να φραίνουμε τις καρδιές των ανθρώπων;”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Ένα χάος μεσολαβεί ανάμεσα του παλιού κόσμου, που σώζεται ακόμα ετοιμόρροπος, και του νέου, όπου μας σπρώχνουν οι οικονομικές και ψυχικές ανάγκες οι μεταπολεμικές. Πρέπει να πηδήξουμε. Όσοι δεν μπορούν να πηδήξουν, θα πέσουν στο χάος.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Σε κανένα μέρος της Γης δεν ένιωσα τόσο βίαιη και φιλήδονη την επαφή της ζωής με το θάνατο.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Θα τον τιμώρησαν για την ύβριν του, γιατί τόλμησε να επιθυμήσει τα αδύνατα. Παρέβηκε την τάξη του κόσμου, ξέχασε τη φρόνιμη ανθρώπινη εντολή: Μηδέν άγαν. Μα μια σύγχρονη ψυχή θα υμνούσε τον τυφλωμένο βιαστή και παραβάτη, γιατί η δική μας εποχή καίγεται από την ίδια βελλεροφόντεια λαχτάρα: Εν άγαν!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Όλα είναι σωστά στον παρδαλό, ανισόρροπο, πάμπλουτο τούτον κόσμο", "Όμοια η αλήθεια είναι χυμένη παντού, αδιόρατη, διαπεραστική, αρμυρή σαν το δάκρυο.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Και σα γεράκι ο νους σέρνει φωνή μέσα στα χαλάσματα, χαρούμενος γιατί νιώθει πως έφτασε στο υψηλό σημείο να βλέπει την άβυσσο σαν πατρίδα.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Κοιτάζεις ένα άγαλμα της κλασικής εποχής και καταλαβαίνεις αμέσως αν ο άντρας που παριστάνει είναι λεύτερος ή δούλος, το σώμα του τον φανερώνει." "Αρμονία νου και κορμιού, ιδού το υψηλό ιδανικό του Έλληνα.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Τέχνη είναι όχι να παρασταίνεις το σώμα παρά τις δυνάμεις που δημιούργησαν το σώμα.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Και πίσω από τους Λαπίθες και τους Κενταύρους διακρίνουμε τους δύο μεγάλους αιώνιους αντιπάλους: το νου και το χτήνος, τον πολιτισμό και τη βαρβαρότητα.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus

“Question : BELOVED OSHO, I AM JUST CURIOUS. HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK ZORBA THE GREEK BY KAZANTZAKIS? I LOVE IT SO MUCH. IS NOT ZORBA EXACTLY THE WAY YOU WANT US TO BE? AT LEAST THAT IS HOW I UNDERSTAND YOUR TEACHING.

Osho : I have been Zorba the Greek for many lives. I need not read the book; that is my autobiography. And that's what I would like you to be.

Take life joyfully, take life easily, take life relaxedly, don't create unnecessary problems.

Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously.

Seriousness is the root cause of problems. Be playful, and you will not miss anything - just be alive, be abundantly alive. Live each moment as if this is the last moment. Live it intensely; let your torch burn from both sides together. Even if it is only for one moment, that is enough.

One moment of intense totality is enough to give you the taste of God.

One moment of clarity, totality, spontaneity, and you burn like a flame. Just one moment is enough! One moment will make you eternal; you will enter from that moment into eternity.

Live this moment as totally as possible.
Let a little irrationality always be there. That makes you capable of playing, being playful; that helps you to relax.

And don't wait for next time...

Not that you will not be born again; you will be born again, but then you will forget. Then you will start again from ABC.

..next time you don't remember - that's the problem. You lose all memory of the past life.

Then again you start from ABC......

So I would not say to you to wait for the next time. Take hold of this moment!
Even if you are eighty-five you can start living. And what is there to lose when you are eighty-five? If you go barefoot on the beach in the spring, if you collect daisies - even if you die in that, nothing is wrong. To die barefoot on the beach is the right way to die. To die collecting daisies is the right way to die. Whether you are eighty-five or fifteen doesn't matter. Take hold of this moment. Be a Zorba.

You ask: "I am just curious. Have you read the book Zorba the Greek? I love it so much."

Only loving it won't help. Be it! Sometimes it happens that you love the opposite of what you are. You enjoy the opposite of what you are - because it releases fantasies in you. It gives you a vision of how you would like to be: that's the appeal of a Zorba.

But loving the book will not help. That's what people have been doing down the ages.

Be a Zorba. Remember it: loving books is not going to help, only being helps.

"I love it so much. Is not Zorba exactly the way you want us to be?"

Not exactly, because I would not like many Zorbas in the world. Not exactly, because that would be ugly and monotonous and boring. You be a Zorba in your own way - not exactly.

Never try to imitate anybody, never be an imitator; that is suicide. Then you will never be able to enjoy. You will always remain a carbon copy, you will never be the original.

And all that happens in life - truth, beauty, good, liberation, meditation, love - happens to the original, never to the carbon copy. Beware - not exactly; that is dangerous. If you simply start following Zorba and start doing things as he is doing them you will get into trouble. That's how people have done it.

Learn from Zorba, learn the secret, but never try to imitate. Learn the climate, appreciate, go into it, sympathize with it, participate with Zorba, and then go on your own. Then be yourself.”
― Osho

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― Nikos Kazantzakis