أحمدوا الله أنكم مرضى , إذ لو كنتم أقوياء لأدرتم العالم رأسا على عقب - Nikos Kazantzakis

How difficult, how extremely difficult for the soul to sever itself from its body the world: from mountains, seas, cities, people. The soul is an octopus and these are its tentacles. … No force anywhere on earth is as imperialistic as the human soul. It occupies and is occupied in turn, but it always considers its empire too narrow. Suffocating, it desires to conquer the world in order to breathe freely.

Speak straight and clear! I only hear that manly prayer
which like a huge fist breaks my head against the stones.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.