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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Dag Hammarskjöld, excerpts from: Vägmärken (Markings)


“To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place.
"In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.”
“Is my contact with others anything more than a contact with reflections? Who or what can give me the power to transform the mirror into a doorway?”

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