Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life-you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.

We are all part of the same energy that envelops.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.