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No cracking of the whip of words
disturbed his peace
in a space that sung.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Stichwörter: transcendence

A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses, that has wasted itself on 'treasons, stratagems and spoils'--of importance only within four walls. A tame animal--in whom the strength of the species has outspent itself, to no purpose.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Stichwörter: nature civilization humans

It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Stichwörter: integrity

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Stichwörter: zen path

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Stichwörter: nature interbeing pantheism

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Stichwörter: zen mind path

My home drove me
into the wilderness.
Few look for me. Few hear me.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Stichwörter: humans path search