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• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

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  Forgiveness, Dream, Children

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

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  Silence, Stillness

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• The longest journey is the journey inward.

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  Inspiration, Journey, Inward

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

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  Christmas, Summer, Time

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• On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

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  Hands, Bookshelves

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• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

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  Spiritual, Inspiration, Energy

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• Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.

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  Creativity, People, Creative

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• It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

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  Giving, Noble, Approval

  "Living in Grace : The Shift to Spiritual Perception". Book by Beca Lewis, 2002.

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• When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.

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  Grateful, Light, Self

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• The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

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  Commitment, Everyday, Ordinary

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• Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

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  Military, Thinking, Drawing

  The Times, June 27, 1955.

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• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

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  Humility, Self, Opposites

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• I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

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  Believe, Should, Dies

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

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  Power, Justify, Deserve

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• To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

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  Self, Perfection, Unselfishness

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• Each day the first day:
  Each day a life.

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  Each Day, Firsts

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• It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.

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  Long, Waiting, Faithful

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• If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

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  Forgiveness, Long, Doe

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• 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.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Bears

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

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  Peace, Guarantees That, Political

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• 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.

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  Nature, Fall, Clouds

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• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

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  Humble, Humility, Reality

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• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

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  Destiny, World, Mystery

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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

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  God, Prayer, Animal

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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