While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly real… - Nikos Kazantzakis

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.

إنني أتحدث وأتحدث وأقول الحماقات , أتدري لماذا ؟ لأن في رأسي هموماً عظيمة . إزعاجات كبيرة

For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.