As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
Nikos KazantzakisYes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.
Nikos KazantzakisThis, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
Nikos KazantzakisWhat, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.
Nikos Kazantzakis