What have I to fear?
If their arrows hit?
If their arrows kill?
What is there in that
To cry about?
Others have gone before,
Others will follow.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Sleepless questions
In the small hours:
Have I done right?
Why did I act
Just as I did?
Over and over again
The same steps,
The same words:
Never the answer.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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I ask: what am I doing here?
And, at once, this I
Becomes unreal.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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"I" = The Accidental Meeting of Possibilities
This accidental
Meeting of possibilities
Calls itself I.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Asked if I have the courage
To go on to the end,
I answer Yes
Without a second thought.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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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.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Too tired for company,
You seek a solitude
You are too tired to fill.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Lucifer's ANGELIC Behavior
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Lust + Loneliness
The lust of the flesh gets its chance to reveal the loneliness of the soul.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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It is in the abyss that you reveal me to myself – I am nothing and did not know it.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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"Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward – your destiny – are here and now."
– Dag Hammarskjold
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The myths have always condemned those who “looked back.”
– Dag Hammarskjold
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In any human situation, it is cheating not to be, at every moment, one’s best.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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How dead can a man be behind a façade of great ability, loyalty, and ambition! Bless your uneasiness as a sign that there is still life within you.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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The best and most wonderful thing that can happen to you in this life, is that you should be silent and let God work and speak.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Understand – through stillness,
Act – out of the stillness,
Conquer – in the stillness.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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The “mystical experience.” Always here and now – in that freedom which is one with distance, in that stillness which is born of silence.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Beyond obedience – freedom from fear.
Beyond fear – openness to life.
And beyond that – love.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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For him who has responded to the call of the Way of Possibility, loneliness may be obligatory.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Faith is the marriage of God and the Soul.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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God desires our independence - which we attain when, creasing to strive for it ourselves, we fall back into God.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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He broke fresh ground – because, and only because, he had the courage to go ahead without asking whether others were following or even understood.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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You have to be SEVERE with yourself in order to have the right to be GENTLE to others.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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For all that has been – Thanks!
To all that shall be – Yes!
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Man's freedom is a freedom to betray God.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy, for lack of character.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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Never let success hide its emptiness from you,
Achievement its nothingness,
Toil its desolation.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, something great enough to die for.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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This dizziness in the face of "les espaces infinis" - only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection.
- Dag Hammarskjold
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