Maxioms by Dag Hammarskjold
Do not seek death.
Death will find you.
But seek the road which
makes death a fulfillment.
Do not seek death.
Death will find you.
But seek the road which
makes death a fulfillment.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have read more
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 There is a pride of faith, more read more
Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 There is a pride of faith, more unforgiveable and dangerous than the pride of the intellect. It reveals a split personality in which faith is "observed" and appraised, thus negating that unity born of a dying-unto-self, which is the definition of faith. To "value" faith is to turn it into a metaphysical magic, the advantages of which ought to be reserved for a spiritual elite.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of read more
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to read more
The "great commitment" is so much easier than the ordinary, everyday one--and can all too easily shut our hearts to the latter. A willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice can be associated with, and even produce, a great hardness of heart.