I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.
But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.
Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in you.
