How shall I take upon myself
these very difficult functions which you, my mother, took
upon yourself for me ? How can I digest and breathe >
How shall I be able to withstand these terrific changes of
climate in the world, I who have been in a temperature that
was always of the same agreeable warmth of your body ?
Montessori
Every day I will praise you
Tehillim 145:2
If it-learning to live-remains to be done, it can happen only between life and death. Neither in life nor in death alone. What happens between two, and between all the “two’s” one likes, such as between life and death, can only maintain itself with some ghost, can only talk with or about some ghost. So it would be necessary to learn spirits.
Derrida
This must be taken into consideration by those who
study life. The child must be helped in his first adapta-
tion to our environment as his psyche must, through
birth, receive a terrific shock. There is no doubt that
the child can feel fright.
Montessori
his greatness no one can fathom
145:3
By this veil which curtains events it instructs the children of men tu
live in to-day.
Emerson
Here in this area of overlap between the playing of the child
and the playing of the other person there is a chance to introduce
enrichments. The teacher aims at enrichment. By contrast,
the therapist is concerned specifically with the child’s own
growth processes, and with the removal of blocks to development
that may have become evident.
Winnicott
I will meditate on your wonderful works
145:5
The only mode of obtaining an answer to these
questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity, and, accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of
nature, work and live, and all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition,
and the question and the answer are one.
Emerson
We’ll discover that our presence, which has to be visible
and warm, makes it possible for us to try to get inside
the child and what that child is doing. And this may
seem to be passive, but it is really a very strong
activity on our part.
Malaguzzi
They celebrate your abundant goodness
145:7
By the same fire, vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns
until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an
ocean of light, we see and know each other, and what spirit
each is of.
Emerson
Play is immensely exciting. It is exciting not primarily because the
instincts are involved, be it understood! The thing about playing is
always the precariousness of the interplay of personal psychic
reality and the experience of control of actual objects. This is the
precariousness of magic itself, magic that arises in intimacy, in a
relationship that is being found to be reliable. To be reliable the
relationship is necessarily motivated by the mother’s love
Winnicott
The Lord upholds all who fall
145:14
sight blinded by sunlight.
The seeing taken in with what is seen
In an explosion of sudden awareness of its formal splendor.
John Ashbery
A vital force is active in the individual and
leads it towards its own evolution. This force has been
called Horme.
Montessori
You open your hand
and satisfy the desires of every living thing
145:16
Being and its realm. This is the first determination of Being. It possesses an empire, whence its metamorphosis into a plurality of beings. This is the first birth of the plural, birth itself, the origin of number and progeniture. of course, the word “realm” already transfers the table of the commandments or the table of categories from Being to an evangelical ground.
Derrida
It’s a constant value for the children to know that the
adult is there, attentive and helpful, a guide for the
child.
Malaguzzi
The Lord watches over all who love him
145:20
I found myself full, needing nothing. I saw that in the ocean of pure awareness, on the surface of the universal consciousness, the numberless waves of the phenomenal worlds arise and subside beginninglessly and endlessly. As consciousness, they are all me. As events they are all mine. There is a mysterious power that looks after them. That power is awareness, Self, Life, God.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
By myself I can do nothing
John 5:30
Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.
Mark 3:35
Let the children come to me, don’t stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
Mark 10:14
The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it’s going. That’s how it is with everyone who has been born from the Spirit.
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
John 3:8
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Mathew 6:9-10
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