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The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Life, Struggle, Heart
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Pain, Struggle, Ignorance

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Struggle, Eye, Night
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Struggle, Way, Sole

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Dream, Struggle, Men
"Journey to the Morea".

I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.

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

Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dread mystery. How? By cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Father, Struggle, Kissing
Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Struggle, Men, Darkness
"Nikos Kazantzakis" by Helen Kazantzakis, (p. 507), 1968.

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