جل ما أردته في هذه الحياة: بيت صغير، وأصيص ريحان، و زوجة طيبة...لم أصل إلى ذلك...أبدا - Nikos Kazantzakis

All this world, all this rich, endless flow of appearances is not a deception, a multicolored phantasmagoria of our mirroring mind. Nor is it absolute reality which lives and evolves freely, independent of our mind's power. It is not the resplendent robe which arrays the mystic body of God. Nor the obscurely translucent partition between man and mystery. All this world that we see, hear, and touch is that accessible to the human senses, a condensation of the two enormous powers of the Universe permeated with all of God.

Her green eyes fluttered swiftly twice or thrice, then glazed,
her mouth gaped open, bleating, then her jaws hung loose
and retched up all her soul in lumps of clotting blood.

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.