2021 (#18) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

Creativity seems to find its power when adults are less tied to prescriptive methods, but instead become observers and interpreters of problematic situations. 

Malaguzzi

Noach, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard.

Bereshit 9:20

On these occasions you are plunging into God, though unconsciously. If you do so consciously, with the conviction that comes of the experience that you are identical with the happiness which is truly God, the one reality, you call it realization. I want you to dive consciously into God, that is the Heart.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in our heart.

Chandogya Upanishad

In the development of children first of all there is
observation of the environment, because he must know
the environment in which he has to move. This obser-
vation is carried out before he can move and then he
orients himself in it ; so the orientation in the environment
and movement are both connected with psychic develop-
ment. That is why the new-born babe is immobile at
first, when he moves he follows the guide of his psyche.

Montessori

from within or from behind a light shines through us upon things , and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Emerson

‘He who has found Spirit, is Spirit. Nobody ignorant of Spirit is born into his family. He goes beyond sorrow, sin, death; the knots of his heart unloosed.

Mundaka Upanishad Book 3

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

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.

God is spirit; and worshippers must worship him spiritually and truly.

John 4:24

He left for the mountain to pray.

Mark 6:46

your kingdom come,
your will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven.

Mathew 6:10

2021 (#17) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

As we have chosen to work with children we can say that they are the best evaluators and the most sensitive judges of the values of creativity. This comes about because they have the privilege of not being excessively attached to their own ideas, which they construct and reinvent continuously. They are apt to explore, make discoveries, change their points of view, and fall in love with forms and meanings that transform themselves.

Malaguzzi

I am putting my rainbow in the cloud — it will be there as a sign of the covenant between myself and the earth

Bereshit 9:13

Have you asked for that knowledge whereby what is not heard is heard, what is not thought is thought, and what is not known is known?

Chandogya Upanishad

There is happiness when agreeable things are presented to the mind. It is the happiness inherent in God, and there is no other happiness.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 Creativity should not be considered a separate mental faculty but a characteristic of our way of thinking, knowing, and making choices.

Malaguzzi

The rainbow will be in the cloud; so that when I look at it, I will remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of any kind on the earth.

Bereshit 9:16

Are built out of the meshing of life and space

At the point where we are wholly revealed

In the lozenge-shaped openings. Because

It is argued that these structures address themselves

To exclusively aesthetic concerns, like windmills

On a vast plain. To which it is answered

That there are no other questions than these

John Ashbery

it is not a limit . . . of a knowledge, the limit in the progression of a knowledge. It is, in some way, a structural non-knowing, which is heterogeneous, foreign to knowledge. It’s not just the unknown that could be known and that I give up trying to know. It is something in relation to which knowledge is out of the question. And when I specify that is is a non-knowing and not the secret, I mean that when a text appears to be crypted, it is not at all in order to calculate or to intrigue or to bar access to something that I know and that others must not know; it is a more ancient, more originary experience, if you will, of the secret.

Derrida

Yeshua Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

Luke 5:16

2021 (#16) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

We must move beyond just looking at
the child to become better observers, able to penetrate into the child to understand each child’s resources
and potential and present state of mind. We need to
compare these with our own in order to work well
together.

Malaguzzi

¹⁴ It was on the twenty-seventh day of the second month that the earth was dry.

Bereshit 8:14

The Master sees things as they are,

without trying to control them.

He lets them go their own way,

and resides at the center of the circle.

Tao Te Ching

Because we would discover a great deal about learning and relationship strategies shared with joy between adults and children and about the
creative play of inventing words and rhymes by children. We would learn
about the power of literacy developing in the interaction of adults with
children and of children with children in play.

Gandini

By the same fire, vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean light, we see and know each other and what spirit each is of.

Emerson

¹⁰ The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

¹¹ He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. ¹² Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance.

Mathew 13:10-12

2021 (#15) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

All of this pushes us to produce a higher level of
observation.

Malaguzzi

¹¹ The dove came in to him in the evening, and there in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf, so Noach knew that the water had cleared from the earth

Bereshit 8:11

In the first place, a phoenix motif. Once again, the destruction
of life is only an appearance: it is the destruction of the appearance of life. One buries or burns what is already dead so that life, the living feminine, will be reborn and regenerated from these ashes. The vitalist theme degeneration/regeneration is active and central throughout the argument. This revitalization, as we have already seen, must first of all pass by way of the tongue, that is, by way of the exercise of the tongue or language, the treatment of its body, the mouth and the ear …

Derrida

They feel the nerves of youth renew, and desires of an-

cient times

William Blake

Only those who have no knowledge of the Source of destiny and free-will dispute as to which of them prevails. They that know God as the one Source of destiny and free-will are free from both.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

In the early morning, while it was still dark, Yeshua got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there.

Mark 1:35

2021 (#14) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

We need to be open to what takes place
and able to change our plans and go with what
might grow at that very moment both inside the
child and inside ourselves.

Malaguzzi

The words of Adonai are pure words,
silver in a melting-pot set in the earth,
refined and purified seven times over.

Tehillim 12:7

We have not yet encountered this strange possibility, regarding hospitality, the possibility of laughter … The welcome must be laughing or smiling, happy or joyous.

Derrida

The precariousness of play belongs to the fact that it is always
on the theoretical line between the subjective and that which is
objectively perceived. It is my purpose here simply to give a reminder that children’s playing has everything in it.

Winnicott

⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’^[d] Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.

John 6:45

All actions are wrought in all cases by the qualities of Nature. He whose mind is deluded by egoism thinks: “I am the doer”.

Bhagavad Gita

This man’s “Good morning” has no human element
of any kind of vested interest. He is addressed and he responds.

D,T. Suzuki

2021 (#13) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

The environment you construct around you and the
children also reflects this image you have about the
child. There’s a difference between the environment
that you are able to build based on a preconceived
image of the child and the environment that you can
build that is based on the child you see in front of you
— the relationship you build with the child, the
games you play. An environment that grows out of
your relationship with the child is unique and fluid.

Malaguzzi

In the beginning Elohim created hashomayim (the heavens, Himel) and haaretz (the earth).

2 And the earth was tohu vavohu (without form, and void); and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Ruach Elohim was hovering upon the face of the waters.

3 And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Bereshit 1:1-3

In the beginning is hermeneutics.

Derrida

*The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Luke 4:18

I cannot tell just where the unconscious is. Is it in me? Or is it
in the flower? Perhaps when I ask, “Where?” it is nowhere. If
so, let me be in it and say nothing.

D.T. Suzuki

Each one of us needs to be able to play with the
things that are coming out of the world of children.
Each one of us needs to have curiosity, and we need
to be able to try something new based on the ideas
that we collect from the children as they go along.
Life has to be somewhat agitated and upset, a bit
restless, somewhat unknown. As life flows with the
thoughts of the children, we need to be open, we
need to change our ideas; we need to be comfortable
with the restless nature of life.

Malaguzzi

By being with yourself, the ‘I am’; by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind. Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

2021 (#12) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

Besides the lullabies, there are traditional rhymes that for many a century have been vehicles for learning with closeness and pleasure between
mother (or grandmother or nanny) and child. Those are the ones that are
used by parents to enter in close relationships with young children, creating a physical bond, developing their language skills, and enjoying playful
games, accompanied by a sense of rhyme and rhythm.

Gandini

Sing to Adonai a new song!
Sing to Adonai, all the earth!
² Sing to Adonai, bless his name!
Proclaim his victory day after day!

Tehillim 96:1-2

Depths and surface should mix so that new life can develop.

Jung

To stimulate life,–leaving it then free to develop, to unfold,–herein lies the first task of the educator

Montessori

18 Adonai, God, said, “It isn’t good that the person should be alone. I will make for him a companion suitable for helping him.”

Bereshit/Genesis 2:18

we distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term REVELATION. these are always attended by the emotion of the sublime, for this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. it is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life, every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

Emerson

But one can already see several possibilities opening up: the “who” might be there before and as the power to  ask questions or else it might be, and this comes down to the same thing, that which is made possible by the power (by being able to) ask questions about itself (who is who? who is it?).

Derrida

The solution is found in the child, whom we can call
the instrument of the adaptability of humanity.

Montessori

¹⁹ “From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female.

Bereshit 6:19

Do understand that you are destined for enlightenment. Co-operate with your destiny, don’t go against it, don’t thwart it. Allow it to fulfil itself.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

He comes to life and begins his mysterious work
and little by little he becomes the wonderful personality
adapted to his time and to his environment. He builds
his mind, until little by little he has constructed memory ;
until little by little he has constructed understanding,
reasoning power ; until little by little, he has arrived at
his 6th year.

Montessori

⁵ The water kept going down until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

Bereshit 8:5

It overflows the question itself, reinscribes it in the experience of an “affirmation”, of a “yes” or of an “en-gage” , that “yes, yes” which answers before even being able to formulate a question, which is responsible without autonomy, before and in view of all possible autonomy of the who-subject, etc.

Derrida

Let the children come to me, don’t stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Mark 10:14

²⁴ “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. ²⁵ Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

John 5:23-24

Whoever believes in me doesn’t believe in me but in the one who sent me.

John 12:44

your kingdom come,
your will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven.

Mathew 6:9-10

2021 (#11) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

We need to define the role of the adult, not as a
transmitter but as a creator of relationships —
relationships not only between people but also
between things, between thoughts, with the environment.

Malaguzzi

Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai.

Bereshit 6:8

we distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term REVELATION. these are always attended by the emotion of the sublime, for this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. it is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life, every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

Emerson

What a service we should render if we could help the human
individual to absorb knowledge without fatigue, if man
could find himself full of knowledge without knowing how
he had acquired it, doing it almost by magic. And why
should it not be possible ? Is not nature full of magic, full
of miracles?

Montessori

Ya‘akov went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Bereshit 32:2

Beauty is the mark God sets upon
virtue. Every natural action is graceful Every heroic· acfis also
‘(Iecent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. We are
taught by great B:ctions that the universe is the property of every
individual in it.

Emerson

You make winds your messengers,
fiery flames your servants.

Tehillim 104:4

 it is always possible for a text to become new, since the white spaces open up its structure to an indefinitely disseminated transformation.

Derrida

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

In the early morning, while it was still dark, Yeshua got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there.

Mark 1:35

your kingdom come,
your will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven.

Mathew 6:9-10

2021 (#10) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

We have to understand that they are moving
and working with many ideas, but their most important task is to build relationships with friends. They
are trying to understand what friendship is. Children
grow in many directions together, but a child is
always in search of relationships.

Malaguzzi

18 Adonai, God, said, “It isn’t good that the person should be alone. I will make for him a companion suitable for helping him.”

Bereshit/Genesis 2:18

In human beings, with their astonishing narrative gift, one of the principal forms of peacekeeping is the human gift for presenting, dramatizing, and explicating the mitigating circumstances surrounding conflict-threatening breaches in the ordinariness of life.

Bruner

In the beginning Elohim created hashomayim (the heavens, Himel) and haaretz (the earth).

2 And the earth was tohu vavohu (without form, and void); and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Ruach Elohim was hovering upon the face of the waters.

Bereshit 1:1-2

if we will not interfere with our thought , but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing and everything and every man> for the maker of all things and all persons stands behind us and casts his omniscience through us over things.

Emerson

Thus, you cannot think the name or names of Friedrich Nietzsche, you cannot hear them before the reaffirmation of the hymen, before the alliance or wedding ring of the eternal return. You will not understand anything of his life, nor of his life and works. until you hear the thought of the “yes, yes” given to this shadowless gift at the ripening high noon, beneath that division whose borders are inundated by sunlight: the overflowing cup of the sun.

Derrida

God is the great harmoniser, the guarantee of the ultimate and perfect balance — of life in freedom. He dissolves you and thus reasserts your true being.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All our heart’s courage is the echoing response to the first call of Being which gathers our thinking into the play of the world.

Heidegger

observe Me in all beings, and also see every being in Me. Indeed, the self-realized man sees Me everywhere

Bhagavad Gita

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.

Mathew 22:36-40

Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.

Mark 3:35

A person can receive only what is given them from heaven

John 3:27

2021 (#9) שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, שִׁיר חָדָשׁ; שִׁירוּ לַיהוָה, כָּל-הָאָרֶץ –

The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences.

Loris Malaguzzi

  whatever they do prospers.

Tehillim 1:3

The Zen approach is to enter right into the object itself and
see it, as it were, from the inside. To know the flower is to
become the flower, to be the flower, to bloom as the flower,
and to enjoy the sunlight as well as the rainfall. When this is
done, the flower speaks to me and I know all its secrets, all its
joys, all its sufferings; that is, all its life vibrating within itself.

D.T, Suzuki

in play, things lose their determining force. The child sees one
thing but acts differently in relation to what he sees. Thus, a condition
is reached in which the child begins to act independently of what he
sees.

Vygotsky

Adonai, lift the light of your face over us!
^8 (7) You have filled my heart with more joy
than all their grain and new wine.

Tehillim 4:7-8

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender
bars of claud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the
earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake
its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my
dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

Emerson

It is assumed here that the task of reality-acceptance is
never completed, that no human being is free from the
strain of relating inner and outer reality, and that relief
from this strain is provided by an intermediate area of
experience (cf. Riviere, 1936) which is not challenged
(arts, religion, etc.). This intermediate area is in direct
continuity with the play area of the small child who is
‘lost’ in play. (Winnicott)

Adonai, in the morning you will hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my needs before you
and wait expectantly.

Tehillim 5:4

The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for their background, and the stars of the dead calices of flowers,.
and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute
something to the mute music.

Emerson

How has he been able to take in this environment >
This is due to one of the special characteristics that
we have discovered in the child : a power of such
intense sensitivity that the things which surround him in
the environment awaken in him an intense interest and
such a great enthusiasm that they seem to penetrate into
his very life. The child takes all these impressions not
with his mind, but with his life. The acquisition of lan-
guage is the most evident example of this.

Montessori

you surround them with favor

Tehillim 5:13

Now, however, by knowing the flower I know my Self. That
is, by losing myself in the flower I know my Self as well as the
flower.

D.T. Suzuki

This visitation of Yahweh is so radically surprising and over-taking that he who receives does not even receive it himself, in his name. His identity is as if fractured. He receives without being ready to welcome since he is no longer the same between the moment at which God initiates the visit and the moment at which, visiting to him, he speaks to him.

Derrida

Just as a mold gives shape to a substance, words can shape an
activity into a structure. However, that structure may be changed or
reshaped when children learn to use language in ways that allow them
to go beyond previous experiences when planning future action.

Vygotsky

For everything there are innumerable causal factors. But the source of all that is, is the Infinite Possibility, the Supreme Reality, which is in you and which throws its power and light and love on every experience. 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

‘Self lives in the heart. There are a hundred and one arteries, from every artery start one hundred veins, from every vein seventy-two thousand smaller veinsall these He has put under the diffusing stream Wyana.Rising sun is the symbol of life; sun maintains Prana of the eye; earth draws down Apana; air, filler of all, maintains Samana; wind, Wyana.‘Light maintains Udana. When that light is out, sense dissolves in mind, man is born again.

Prashna Upanishad

18 Adonai, God, said, “It isn’t good that the person should be alone. I will make for him a companion suitable for helping him.”

Bereshit/Genesis 2:18

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

How blessed are the pure in heart!
for they will see God.

Mathew 5:8