“What is our duty? To struggle so that a small flower may blossom from the dunghill of our flesh and mind.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis , book The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Humanity is such a lump of mud, each one of us is such a lump of mud. What is our duty? To struggle so that a small flower may blossom from the dunghill of our flesh and mind.
Out of things and flesh, out of hunger, out of fear, out of virtue and sin, struggle continually to create God.

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