Zorba the Buddha

this paradoxical ideal of a “liquid” and constantly shifting identity would become the basis for a new, equally “liquid,” fluid, and flexible community in the 1970s and 1980s.

The true “Master” in his view was not someone who makes you feel better or gives you all the answers, but instead the one who confuses you, makes you question yourself, and creates intense internal conflict:

The Hindus condemn him as a hedonist, the Communists belittle him as a spiritualist, the journalists describe him as a ‘sex guru,’ and one scholar called him ‘the Hugh Heffner of the spiritual world.’”