Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

He 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.

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.

Trees quiver in the wind,
sailing on a sea of mist
out of earshot.

Doffing the ego's
safe glory, he finds
his naked reality.

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis-only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense-what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Acts of violence- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death-and the meaninglessness of killing.

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.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Friendship needs no words.

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.