Human Heart

Zorba the Greek, spoke tenderly and profoundly when he told this story:

”One day, when I was a child, an old neighbor took me on his knee and placed his hand on my head as though he were giving me his blessing. ‘Alexis,’ he said, ‘I’m going to tell you a secret. You’re too small to understand now, but you’ll understand when you are bigger. Listen, little one: neither the seven stories of heaven nor the seven stories of the earth are enough to contain God; but a man’s heart can contain him. So be very careful, Alexis — and may my blessing go with you — never to wound a man’s heart.’”