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[Raymond Freedman]

Iwaited until page 267 (of 311) to start flagging said wisdom nuggets, but all was not lost: I went back and canvased the book like I was back in college writing a term paper. There were important lessons in this book, mottoes and mantras to live by, that I knew you, too, would find as timely refreshers.

1. Experience awe daily. The feeling of awe is so elusive, but its presence always slows my step, catches my breath, and demands every ounce of my focus. We grow more experienced and oblivious to the simple, miraculous everything around us. Zorba awakes each day and marvels at the simplest things like a child with virgin eyes. If I can keep an ember of that astonishment at everyday things, it would be a blessing.

7. Nature nourishes the soul. The boss describes Zorba time and again as a man not yet severed from Mother Earth. His actions are primary colors, simple, loud, and base. Men are rejuvenated beneath a big sky. I understand the power of nature to refresh the self; while Zorba and the boss basically live in a van down by the river, most of us city-dwellers need some time in the back country to feed the animal inside.

I love all of these lessons. What struck me about them all is that I discovered them myself through 2 pathways-

#travel

# my daughter, who reminds me every day to live in awe of even the tiny miracles of life that we so often overlook.

Another lesson that struck me as truth was that nature is good for the soul. If I spend too long away from nature I feel such a strong sense of disconnection from all things. My whole body will crave to get lost in the forest as I know that nature provides us with the purest of energy and gives us a view to the perfection of life. I am really excited to be returning home to live near the beach again, so my soul can be nourished daily.

Once again, an inspiring post Keith!

Great post, really made me think. I just turned 30 at the end of June so I can relate on the age thing. I love how you throw a little humor (carpe diem with jazz hands, live in a van down by the river) into a deep topic like this. Always enjoy reading you blog ?

I really enjoyed your article about Zorba and the life lessons you learned from him. In fact your article inspired me to write my own article:

5 Life-Changing Lessons Zorba the Greek Taught Me

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Wonderful. Zorba the Greek is among the books I have read and have brought about the greatest changes in my view of life and of myself. Some of the great lesson I learned from it: be authentic, be yourself, be human, and above all things, be tough and gentle, and kind at the same time.

Frank

Hi Keith ? I stumbled upon your blog while researching on Zorba. The masochism of Zorba disturbed me a great deal, but reading it in context of the socio-political situation of the Greek society made sense of his views on gender issues. Once I got past this, I found this book very refreshing and uplifting and a handbook to how to live life to the fullest. Numbers 3, 4 and 5 on your list are my own personal demons that I try to conquer on a daily basis. Your post inspires me ? and thank you for your wonderful writing on Scotland, I thoroughly enjoy reading you ?

Really enjoyed reading this and also tonight reading it to my girls, 11 & 14, interesting reactions indeed! Zorba, definitely on the reading list, thank you so much for your life lessons, I am shall do my best to keep them close. #7 my favourite, nature is key, it is my church. Thanks again

I discovered Zorba and the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis during my college years and consider Kazantzakis to have been a mentor of sorts to me throughout my life. I recently published a book Chasing Zorba: A Journey of Self-Discovery in a VW Bus that I would love to share with you. Please feel free to email me.

The character of Alexis Zorbas that Nikos Kazantzakis created 60 years ago in his book The Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas (translated into English as Zorba the Greek) is more than just a literary concoction, however. The real man behind the character was every bit as spirited. Legendary tales about him are kept alive today in an unspoilt corner of the Mani region in the southern Peloponnese.

It was here that Cretan-born Kazantzakis hooked up with Yiorgis (George) Zorbas in 1917 for a peculiar and risky venture in lignite mining that was doomed to failure for many reasons but was nevertheless spun into literary gold a few decades later.

To find out more about the real Zorbas, we set off for the secluded beach of Kalogria, near the village of Stoupa, to meet a young woman called Mary Georgilea, whose family have been closely associated with the Zorbas family for several generations.

The beach of Kalogria these days, out of season, is almost as deserted and peaceful as it was when the pair first came here in 1917. The small house with a red pitched roof is one of a pair built on the far right of the beach, not far from the well-known natural spring, the Prinkipa, that bubbles up cold mountain water between the rocks, like a natural plunge pool.

Kazantzakis had chosen to live on the other side of this quiet sandy cove from Zorbas in a simple hut made of wood and bamboo with nothing much inside but a table, chair and a straw-filled mattress. Yet it was here he spent much of 1917/18 writing and reading, leaving the gregarious Zorbas to deal with the lignite business, and village life.

Born in west Macedonia in 1867, Zorbas had worked in various countries as a miner before he came to the Mani, bringing his wife and some of their eight children with him, though they preferred to stay well away, living in the nearby city of Kalamata.

To complete the search for the real Zorbas, Maria took us to the abandoned Prastovas area on a Stoupa hillside which has the original lignite mine the pair were involved in. The mine proved unsuccessful and had an early demise and now it is a rather wild and forlorn rabbit warren of tunnels oozing puddles of spring water.

For more details about my book, Things Can Only Get Feta based on three years living in the Mani, southern Greece during the crisis, visit my website www.bigfatgreekodyssey.com or visit Facebook www.facebook.com/ThingsCanOnlyGetFeta

Hi Elizabeth,

Thanks for you message. Your production of Zorba sounds great and what a good idea. Are you planning to bring the production to the UK?

And do you have a Facebook page for it?

I wish you great success.

Kind regards,

Marjory

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