Somebody placed the shuttle in your hand: somebody who had already arranged the threads.
Dag HammarskjöldHe is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.
Dag HammarskjöldTags: integrity nature path transcendence
No cracking of the whip of words
disturbed his peace
in a space that sung.
Tags: 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 HammarskjöldTags: 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 HammarskjöldTags: integrity
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Dag HammarskjöldWhen 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 HammarskjöldTags: 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 HammarskjöldMy home drove me
into the wilderness.
Few look for me. Few hear me.
Trees quiver in the wind,
sailing on a sea of mist
out of earshot.
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