Maxioms by Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Friendship needs no words—it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 We can reach the point where it read more
Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 We can reach the point where it becomes possible for us to recognize and understand Original Sin, that dark counter-centre of evil in our nature -- that is to say, though it is not our nature, it is of it -- that something within us which rejoices when disaster befalls the very cause we are trying to serve, or misfortune overtakes even those we love. Life in God is not an escape from this, but a way to gain full insight concerning it. It is not our depravity which forces a fictitious religious explanation upon us, but the experience of religious reality which forces the "Night Side" out into the light. It is when we stand in the righteous all-seeing light of love that we can dare to look at, admit, and consciously suffer under this something in us which wills disaster, misfortune, defeat to everything outside the sphere of our narrowest self interest.
Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions
Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on read more
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
