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Nikos Kazantzakis is the greatest modern Greek philosopher.Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ are two of his books that were turned into movies.So, what’s the case. The saviors of God or Salvatores Dei or Askitiki is the book that had a profound effect in me. That’s where I realised that all great minds’ teachings have the same core. I found Tolles’, Deidas’ teachings in this one. He talks about Time, Stillness, Now, Oneness, Duty in a way that spoke to my heart.I hope it will do the same thing to u too.This is a simple copy-paste from the web. You can get it for free onhttp://www.angel.net/~nic/askitiki.html (English version)http://www.diaplous.org/library/askitiki.php (Greek version)Amazon link http://www.amazon.com/saviors-God-Spiritual-exercises/dp/B00…This contains two files, download the one you are interested in.”The saviors of God” is the English translation”askitiki” is the Greek originalI quote some lines that changed me for everFirst dutyThis is how, with clarity and austerity, you may determine the omnipotence of the mind amid appearances and the incapacity of the mind beyond appearances – before you set out for salvation. You may not otherwise be saved.Second dutyI WILL NOT accept boundaries; appearances cannot contain me; I choke! To bleed in this agony, and to live it profoundly, is the second duty.But another voice within me – call it the Sixth Power, call it the heart – resists and shouts:”No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'”Third dutyI know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free. This is what I want. I want nothing more. I have been seeking freedom.The Ego”Love danger. What is most difficult? That is what I want! Which road should you take? The most craggy ascent! It is the one I also take: follow me!But within me a deathless Cry, superior to me, continues to shout. For whether I want to or not, I am also, without doubt, a part of the visible and the invisible Universe. We are one. The powers which labor within me, the powers which goad me on to live, the powers which goad me on to die are, without doubt, its own powers also.The RaceYou are not one; you are a body of troops, One of your faces lights up for a moment under the sun. Then suddenly it vanishes, and another, a younger one, lights up behind you.”Do not die that we may not die,” the dead cry out within you. “We had no time to enjoy the women we desired; be in time, sleep with them! We had no time to turn our thoughts into deeds; turn them into deeds! We had no time to grasp and to crystallize the face of our hope; make it firm!When you shake with fear, your terror branches out into innumerable generations, and you degrade innumerable souls before and behind you. When you rise to a valorous deed, all of your race rises with you and turns valorous.And I stop here, this is getting big already.Please if you read this, comment on it, I really want to hear your insights on this one.