Zorba's Labyrinth

Author's name: Ahmed Magdy

Zorba's Labyrinth is a journey from maze to maze.. There is no destination, but it is the journey that began so that it will never end.. In it, Zorba searches for his existence, that existence which is a gift that he did not choose, but he clung to it, for it is his only path towards freedom.. that freedom which is the most precious thing Zorba possesses, if not the whole thing Zorba possesses. On that journey, Zorba searched for God.. He dialogued with Him.. He asked, and millions of questions arose, as he did not wait for answers despite the pain of losing them. But such is the price of freedom.. Then he moved on to dialogue with man and search for (who is man).. He found him a speck of clay roaming this infinite universe, and he found him the spirit of the universe, without which this entire universe would not have existed.. What a being! Zorba wondered... Does this man have a meaning? .. And what is he? .. Why does he believe that the highest values ​​are freedom, love and beauty? .. And why did he find that their greatest manifestations are honesty, courage and nobility? .. And why does he see that the holiest thing that can be done is seclusion, revolution and creativity? Zorba, the outsider who realized the falsehood of existence, so he shouted in its face, and broke out of its mold until he declared himself an outsider, drawing existence with his brush, and making of it a great Zorba that embraces all of existence... Not arrogance, but existentialism that drives him to color existence with his own dye as long as he perceives it with his senses, understands it with his mind, and creates it with his spirit. It is Zorba's journey from flesh to spirit... From the first light where he came as a flash of existence to the first light where he took a circular path in understanding existence to reach the same point from which he started. He started from his perfection, then made his circle to remove from his perfection the burdensome shadows of falsehood to reach his first perfection.