I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.
Interpretation
The essence of communication and life can be summed up in a single word: love.
Nikos Kazantzakis emphasizes the paramount importance of love in our lives. He suggests that amidst the complexities and noise of existence, love remains the singular, profound message that should guide our actions and thoughts, underscoring its significance over any other concepts or distractions.
In practice
In a wedding speech to highlight the significance of love in marriage.
A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.
This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen.
The dual substance of Christ - the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God. [...] has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. [...] My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. [...] And my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.
God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses
So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
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