I can tell that Zorba, once again, will not let hold of me.... Chew, chew, chew... contemplate - try to understand as fully as possible - ME. And him. Oops - Cervantes you will have to wait long time your turn. ;) Please pause popping in, most graciously I beg - time is needed.
Reading quotes again from the book, like the one to follow - is so moving, the motion and acceptance of Life. I feel nectar flowing more freely in my heart.In this one, 'The Boss' writes to Zorba after they have had their epiphany on the beach, which comes at the end of the movie, but continues on through correspondence and experience in the book:
"My joys here are great, because they are very simple and spring from the everlasting elements: the pure air, the sun, the sea and the wheaten loaf. In the evening an extraordinary Sinbad-the-Sailor squats before me, Turkish fashion, and speaks. He speaks and the world grows bigger. Occasionally, when words no longer suffice, he leaps up and dances. And when dancing no longer suffices he places his santuri on his knees and plays.
'Sometimes he plays a savage air and you feel you are choking because you realise all at once that your life is colourleess, miserable and unworthy of man. Sometimes he plays a dolorous air and you feel your life passing, running away like sand between your fingers, and that there is no salvation.
'My heart is going to and fro in my breast like a weaver's shuttle. It is weaving these few months which I am spending in Crete, and - God forgive me - I believe I am happy.
'Confucius says: "Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man." That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature. Such is, my dear pupil and master, my happiness of the day. I anxiously measure it and measure it again, to see what my stature of the moment is.
For you know this very well, man's stature is not always the same.'How the soul of a man is transformed according to the climate, the silence, the solitude, or the company in which it lives!"
Me now: that book in my top 10 is filled to the top with insight, thoughtfulness, and the spinning wheel of life. If you haven't read it, and keep a list, you know what you might want to do.