Master Diaries

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When you grieve, dance

La danse de Zorba

It is the fundamental fact of being, as against not being; it is unthinkable, yet we cannot unthink it, though we may sometimes be unthinking about it; unthinking and especially unthanking. For he who has realized this reality knows that it does outweigh, literally to infinity, all lesser regrets or arguments for negation, and that under all our grumblings there is a subconscious substance of gratitude.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

—G. K. Chesterton

I: And the crown? Solve the riddle of the crown for me!" Soul Bird: "The crown and serpent are opposites, and are one. Did you not see the serpent that crowned the head of the crucified?" I: "What, I don't understand you." Soul Bird: "What words did the crown bring you? "Love never ends" - that is the mystery of the crown and the serpent."

gabriellapapadakis: Dance? Did you say dance?

Zorba the Greek, 1964