2021 (#98)

they needed to diminish the stitches or reduce the knit of what they were working on. And for this dimunition, needles and hands had to work with two loops at once, or at least play with more than one.

weaving a shroud by saving the lost threads (the lost sons) …

(Derrida)

in dealing with children of this age one handles
almost a magic wand in social life. First there is the
marvel of the transformation of the child himself, secondly
there is the touching marvel (it causes emotion) that the
child is able to do much more than one had expected,
and this rouses in the spirit of the adult a sort of
reverence for the spirit of childhood, hence it achieves a
transformation and an education of the adults.

(Montessori)

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)

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)

He who learns in contemplation the holy words of our discourse, the light of his vision is his adoration. This is my truth.

(Bhagavad Gita)

It calls upon the reader as witness in the way one might address oneself to a confessor or to some transferential addressee, some would say to an analyst, assuming that the reader is not always an analyst. Freud,then, has the premonition (Ich ahne) that something exceeds the analysis. The interpretation, the analytic deciphering, the Deutung of a certain fragment did not go far enough: a hidden meaning (verborgenne Sinn) exceeds the analysis.

(Derrida)

The path of the righteous is like the morning sun,
shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
(Proverbs)

Observation, very general and wide-spread, has
shown that small children are endowed with a special
psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting
education ! A different form which concerns humanity
itself and which has never been taken into consideration.
The real constructive energy, alive and dynamic, of
children, remained unknown for thousands of years.

(Montessori)

– So, this non-knowing . . . 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… it is a more ancient, more originary experience, if you will, of the secret. It is not a thing, some information that I am hiding or that one has to hide or dissimulate; it is rather an experience that does not make itself available to information, that resists information and knowledge, and that immediately encrypts itself …

(Derrida)

The bars had been removed from all the windows

There was something quiet in the way the light entered

Her troussaeau. Wine fished out of the sea — they hadn’t known

We were coming relaxed forever (John Ashbery)

The Lord is in his holy temple;
the Lord is on his heavenly throne.
He observes everyone on earth;
his eyes examine them.

(Tehillim 11:4)

The time of the “learning to live, a time without tutelary present, would amount to this, to which the exordium is leading us: to learn to live with ghosts, in the upkeep, the conversation, the company, or the companionship, in the commerce without commerce of ghosts. To live otherwise, and better. No, not better, but more justly But with them. No being-with the other, no socius without this with that makes being-with in general more enigmatic than ever for us. And this being-with specters would also be, not only but also, a politics of memory, of inheritance, and of generations. (Derrida)

7 I bless Adonai, my counselor;
at night my inmost being instructs me.
8 I always set Adonai before me;
with him at my right hand, I can never be moved;
9 so my heart is glad, my glory rejoices,
and my body too rests in safety;
10 for you will not abandon me to Sh’ol,
you will not let your faithful one see the Abyss.
11 You make me know the path of life;
in your presence is unbounded joy,
in your right hand eternal delight.

Tehillim/Psalms 16:7-11

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles; Meantime in man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence ; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

(Emerson)

Long ago was the then beginning to seem like now

As now is but the setting out of a new but still

Undefined way. that now, the one once

Seen from far away, is our destiny

No matter what else may happen to us. It is

The present past of which our features,

Our opinions are made.

(John Ashbery)

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/Genesis 1:1-2

While the form of the “book” is now going through a period of general upheaval, and while that form now appears less natural, and its history less transparent, than ever, and while one cannot tamper with it without disturbing everything else, the book form alone can no longer settle—here for example—the case of those writing processes which, in praaically questioning that form, must also dismantle it. Hence the necessity, today, of working out at every turn, with redoubled effort, the question of the preservation of names: of paleonymy. Why should an old name, for a determinate time, be retained? Why should the effects of a new meaning, concept, or object be damped by memory?

(Derrida)

eternity is In the split moment of the now. We miss it because the mind is ever shuttling between the past and the future. It will not stop to focus the now. It can be done with comparative ease, if interest is aroused… By keeping your mind clear and clean, by living your life in full awareness of every moment as it happens, by examining and dissolving one’s desires and fears as soon as they arise… Once you are well-established in the now, you have nowhere else to go what you are timelessly, you express eternally.

(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

What should the language be such that seeing it and falling into it would be the same event?

(Derrida)

A person can receive only what is given them from heaven

(John 3:27)

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)

the infinitely small point of meaning which the languages barely brush … What can an infinitely small point of meaning be? What is the measure to evaluate it? The metaphor itself is at once the question and the answer.

(Derrida)

Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.
(Mark 3:35)

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. —

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

To put the old names to work, or even Just to leave them in circulation,
will always, of course, involve some risk: the risk of settling down or of
regressing into the system that has been, or is in the process of being,
deconstructed. To deny this risk would be to confirm it: it would be to see
the signifier-in this case the name-as a merely circumstantial , conventional
occurrence of the concept or as a concession without any specific
effect. It would be an affirmation of the autonomy of meaning, of the ideal
puri ty of an abstract, theoretical history of the concept. Inversely, to claim
to do away immediately with previous marks and to cross over, by decree,
by a simple leap, into the outside of the classical oppositions is, apart from
the risk of engaging in an interminable “negative theology,” to forget that
these oppositions have never constituted a given system, a sort of ahistorical,
thoroughly homogeneous table, but rather a dissymmetric, hierarchically
ordered space whose closure is constantly being traversed by the forces, and
worked by the exteriority, that it represses: that is, expels and, which
amounts to the same, internalizes as one of its moments.

(Derrida)

Just as the living God sent me and I live because of God, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

(John 6:57)

The paradox must be sharpened: the more the new erupts in the revolutionary crisis, the more the period is in crisis, the more it is “out of joint,” then the more one has to convoke the old, “borrow” from it. Inheritance from the “spirits of the past” consists, as always, in borrowing. Figures of borrowing, borrowed figures, figurality as the figure of borrowing. (Derrida)

and in that way you will always remain unattached and free from bondage

(Bhagavad Gita)

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)

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

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

I and the Father are one.

I and My Father are one.

I and my Father, We are One

(John 10:30)

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

Mark 10:14

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

(Mathew 6:9-10)

2021 (#97)

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.
All of this changes the role of the teacher, a role that
becomes much more difficult and complex. It also
makes the world of the teacher more beautiful,
something to become involved in.

(Malaguzzi)

early childhood education, all education, is not like flying and building a plane. There are different ideas, perspectives, values about education; education is embedded in different cultural and social contexts; times and conditions change, the world is dynamic. There is not, should not be and need not be a universal, objective, stable, value-free and context-free view about education. For example, I believe that democracy should be a fundamental value of education; others may disagree, taking a different view. In other words, in the words of Loris Malaguzzi, education is a political discourse calling for political choices; a plane is not! Those political choices in education have to be made in response to political questions, that is questions that have alternative and often conflicting answers, questions like: What is your image of the child? What is the purpose of education? what ethics for education? What values? What do we mean by ‘education’ or ‘care’? What do we want for our children?

If I am flying on a plane, I hope it is a quality plane, based on technical practice, with experts answering technical questions by coming up with the one right technical choice. By contrast, I want a ‘good’ education, based on political practice involving democratic debate about political questions, leading to a political choice about what ‘good’ means—but always acknowledging there is no one right choice to such political questions or to the meaning of ‘good’.

(Peter Moss)

In human beings, with their astonishing narrative gift, one of the principal forms of peacekeeping is the human gift for presentating, dramatizing, and explicating the mitigating circumstances surrounding conflict-threatening breaches in the ordinariness of life. The object of the narrative is not to reconcile, not to legitimize, not to even excuse, but to rather explicate…To be in a viable culture is to be bound in a set of connecting stories, connecting even though the stories may not represent a consensus.

(Bruner)

Multiplicity is the inseparable manifestation, essential
transformation and constant symptom of unity. Multiplicity is the
affirmation of unity; becoming is the affirmation of being. The affirmation
of becoming is itself being, the affirmation of multiplicity is
itself one. Multiple affirmation is the way in which the one affirms
itself.

(Deleuze)

Witness openly responds. Response comes from nowhere. Mind then penetrates. Penetrate the One, and all tasks are done.

(Sun Bu-er)

The young lions roar after their prey
and seek their food from God.

The sun rises, they slink away
and lie down to rest in their dens;

(Tehillim 104:22)

Spirit incorporates history by assimilating, by remembering its own past. This assimilation acts as a kind of sublimated eating—spirit eats everything that is external and foreign, and thereby transforms it into something internal, something that is its own. Everything shall be incorporated into the great digestive system—nothing is inedible in Hegel’s infinite metabolism.

(Derrida)

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² On their banks the birds of the air build their nests;
among the branches they sing.

(Tehillim 104:11-12)

The figures of incorporation in hermeneutics and speculative philosophy are what I call the “tropes of cannibalism.” Nowhere is this clearer than in Hegel, but these tropes are at work everywhere in Western thought. Eating is, after all, the great mystery of Christianity, the transubstantiation occurs in the act of incorporation itself: bread and wine become the flesh and blood of Christ. But it is not simply God’s body that is incorporated via a mystical eating—it is also his words.

(Derrida)

You grow grass for the cattle;
and for people you grow the plants they need
to bring forth bread from the earth,

Tehillim 104:14

For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world…

(John 6:33)

Eating God’s words constitutes a parallel to the Holy Sacrament—here too, a divine transubstantiation takes place. And that has left its mark on modern hermeneutics, which of course has its roots in biblical interpretation

(Derrida)

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Yeshua said to them, “My personal food is that I do the will of him who has sent me and finish His work.

(John 4:34)

wine that gladdens the human heart,
oil to make faces glow,
and food to sustain their strength.

(Tehillim 104:15)

in his or her culture and discipline, whatever it may be, in particular philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, and more precisely here, because we are speaking of memory and of archive, the history of texts and of discourses, political history, legal history, the history of ideas or of culture, the history of religion and religion itself …

(Derrida)

⁴³ Let whoever is wise observe these things
and consider Adonai’s loving deeds.

Tehillim/Psalms 107:43)

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.

(Emerson)

The question has been asked

As though an immense natural bridge had been

Strung across the landscape to any point you wanted.

The ellipse is as aimless as that,

Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear

In our present. Its flexing is its account

(John Ashbery)

He will drink from a stream as he goes on his way;
therefore he will hold his head high.

(Tehillim/Psalms 110:7)

A person can receive only what is given them from heaven

(John 3:27)

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)

Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.
(Mark 3:35)

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. —

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

Just as the living God sent me and I live because of God, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

(John 6:57)

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)

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

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

I and the Father are one.

I and My Father are one.

I and my Father, We are One

(John 10:30)

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

Mark 10:14

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

(Mathew 6:9-10)

2021 (#96)

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere. We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms. One moral we have already deduced, in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action. Another analogy we shall now trace, that every action admits of being outdone. Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

(Emerson)

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)

Many, Lord, are asking, “Who will bring us prosperity?”
Let the light of your face shine on us.
7 Fill my heart with joy
when their grain and new wine abound.

8 In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, Lord,
make me dwell in safety.

(Mizmor/Tehillim/Psalms 4:6-8)

Literacy risks being seen both as the only pathway to success and at the
same time a punitive boogeyman that scares away children’s joy. Generally,
teachers are as much in agreement about the importance of literacy as we
are about the importance of play, but sometimes we think they are mutually
exclusive—that time devoted to one takes away from the other. Literacy
and play, indeed all learning and play, can go together. They really must
go together; together they can and should be pleasurable and rewarding
experiences for children, and for teachers and parents as well, who clearly
want the best possible for their children now and for the future.

(Gandini)

Then you will understand righteousness, justice,
fairness and every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
knowledge will be enjoyable for you,
11 discretion will watch over you,
and discernment will guard you.

(Proverbs/Mashal 2:9-11)

you seeking after God, let your heart revive.
^34 (33) For Adonai pays attention to the needy

(Tehillim 69:34)

‘He is One, Governor, God of all, Creator of many out of one. He that dare discover Him within, rejoices; ‘He is imperishable among things that perish. Life of all life, He, though one, satisfies every man’s desire. He that dare discover Him within, knows peace.

When He shines, everything begins to shine. Everything in the world reflects His light.’

(Katha Upanishad Book 2)

Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts, as expressions of one law. Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes. By going one step farther back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.

(Emerson)

18 The water overflowed the earth and grew deeper, until the ark floated on the surface of the water.

(Genesis 7:18)

The world’s darkening never reaches to the light of Being.

(Heidegger)

a presence both perceived and not perceived, at once image and model, and hence image without model, neither image nor
model, a medium (medium in the sense of middle, neither/nor, what is
between extremes, and medium in the sense of element, ether, matrix,
means). When we have rounded a certain corner in our reading, we will
place ourselves On that side of the lustre where the “medium” is shining.

(Derrida)

There must be love in the relation between the person who says ‘I am’ and the observer of the ‘I am’… It is only when the observer (‘vyakta’) accepts the person (‘vyakti’) as a projection or manifestation of himself, and so to say, takes the ego into God, the duality of ‘I’ and ‘this’ goes and the identity of the outer and the inner, the God’s Reality manifests itself.

(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

The world was made for the soul, to exercise and support the eye of the soul in order to bear the Divine Light.

(Meister Eckhart)

in the divine consciousness, although engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving about, sleeping and breathing, always knows that he actually does nothing at all

with the mind centered in the Self, free from hope and egoism, and from (mental) fever

(Bhagavad Gita)

He wiped out every living thing on the surface of the ground — not only human beings, but livestock, creeping animals and birds in the air. 

(Genesis 7:23)

This condensation of history, of language, of the encyclopedia, remains here indissociable from an absolutely singular event, an absolutely singular signature, and therefore also of a date, of a language, of an autobiographical inscription. In a minimal autobiographical trait can be gathered the greatest potentiality of historical, theoretical, linguistic, philosophical culture — that’s really what interests me.

(Derrida)

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. —

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

Just as the living God sent me and I live because of God, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

(John 6:57)

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)

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

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

I and the Father are one.

I and My Father are one.

I and my Father, We are One

(John 10:30)

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

Mark 10:14

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

Mathew 6:9-10

2021 (#95)

It is by studying the behaviour of these children
and their re-actions to each other in this atmosphere of
freedom that the real secret of society is revealed. They
are fine and delicate facts that have to be examined
with a spiritual microscope, but they are of the utmost
interest since they reveal facts inherent in the very
nature of man. These schools, therefore, are thought
of as laboratories for psychological research, although
it is not really research, but observation that is carried
out. It is this observation which is important.

(Montessori)

We have
seen that a community or social group sustains itself
through continuous self-renewal, and that this renewal
takes place by means of the educational growth of the
immature members of the group. By various agencies,
unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of
its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process. All of these words
mean that it implies attention to the conditions of growth.

(John Dewey)

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

(Jeremiah 31:3)

Purpose implies movement, change, a sense of imperfection. God does not aim at beauty — whatever he does is beautiful. God is perfection itself, not an effort at perfection.

(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

The truth is that what involves the totality of human ex-
istence is not a matter of intellection but of the will in its most
primary sense of the word. The intellect may raise all kinds of
questions— and it is perfectly right for it to do so— but to expect
any final answer from the intellect is asking too much of it,
for this is not in the nature of intellection. The answer lies
deeply buried under the bedrock of our being.

(D.T, Suzuki)

Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai.

(Genesis 6:8)

The duality of subject and object and trinity of seer, sight, and seen can exist only if supported by God. If one turns inward in search of God they fall away. Those who see this are those who see Wisdom. They are never in doubt.

(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

A translation would not seek to say this or that, to transport this or that content,to communicate such a charge of meaning, but to re-mark the affinity among the languages, to exhibit its own possibility. And that, which holds for the literary text or the sacred text, perhaps defines the very essence of the literary and the sacred, attheir common root. I said “re-mark” the affinity among the language to name the strangeness of an “expression” C<to express the most intimate relation among the languages”), which is neither a simple “presentation” nor simply anything else. In a
mode that is solely anticipatory, annunciatory, almost prophetic, translation renders present an affinity that is never present in this presentation. One thinks of the
way in which Kant at times defines the relation to the sublime: a presentation inadequate to that which is nevertheless presented

(Derrida)

I and the Father are one.

I and My Father are one.

I and my Father, We are One

(John 10:30)

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. —

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

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)

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

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

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

Mark 10:14

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

Mathew 6:9-10

2021 (#94)

The more teachers are convinced that intellectual and expressive activities have both multiplying and unifying possibilities, the more creativity favors friendly exchanges with imagination and fantasy.

(Malaguzzi)

A child, for example, who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at
first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful
friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be
changed from a menace into a desirable companion. Belief in the “truth” of the fairy tale
gives him courage not withdraw because of the way this stranger appears to him at first.
Recalling how the hero of many a fairy tale succeeded in life because he dared to
befriend a seemingly unpleasant figure, the child believes he may work the same magic.

(Bettelheim)

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)

 where danger is,

Deliverance also beckons.

Eagles dwell in darkness

And across chasms go

The fearless sons of the Alps,

On bridges lightly built.

(Holderlin)

Still! Still! Did not the world become perfect just now? What is happening to me? As a delicate wind dances unseen on an inlaid sea, light, feather-light, thus sleep dances on me. My eyes it does not close, my soul it leaves awake. Light it is, verily, feather-light. It persuades me, I know not how. It touches me inwardly with caressing hands, it conquers me. Yes, it conquers me and makes my soul stretch out.

(Nietzsche/Zarathustra)

What I say to you, I say to everyone: “Watch!”

(Mark 13:37)

He who is beyond time – is the un-nameable. A glowing ember moved round and round quickly enough appears as a glowing circle. When the movement ceases, the ember remains. Similarly, the ‘I am’ in movement creates the world. The ‘I am’ at peace becomes the Absolute.

(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

The possibility of this impossibility derails and shatters all unity, and
this is love; it disorganizes all studied discourses, all theoretical systems
and philosophies. They must decide between presence and absence, here
and there, what reveals and what conceals itself.

(Derrida)

When one’s wisdom, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in God then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete understanding and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation

In whatever way men approach Me, even so do I reward them; My path do men tread in all ways

(Bhagavad Gita)

Then give us calm waters; 

Give us wings, and loyal minds

 To cross over and return.

(Holderlin)

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. —

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

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)

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

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

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

Mark 10:14

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

Mathew 6:9-10

2021 (#93)

Observing in this way offers tremendous benefits. It
requires a shift in the role of the teacher from an
emphasis of teaching to an emphasis on learning,
teachers learning about themselves as teachers as
well as teachers learning about children. This is a
self-learning that takes place for the teacher and it
enables the teacher to see things that are taking place
in children that teachers were not able to see before.

(Malaguzzi)

I, by your great love,
can come into your house;
in reverence I bow down
toward your holy temple.

(Mizmor/Tehillim/Psalms 5:7)

Your joy is divine; your suffering is divine too.
All comes from God. Remember it always.

(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

and in that way you will always remain unattached and free from bondage

(Bhagavad Gita)

What should the language be such that seeing it and falling into it would be the same event?

(Derrida)

“Very truly I tell you, you will see ‘heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

(John 1:50)

in these communications the power to see is not separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience. and the obedience proceeds from a joyful perception, every moment when a man feels invaded by it is memorable. —

(Emerson)

He 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)

“As it is present in all persons, so it is in every period of life. it is adult already in the infant man” —

(Emerson)

By thy grace I remember my Light, and now gone is my delusion. My doubts are no more, my faith is firm; and now I can say ‘Thy will be done’.

(Bhagavad Gita)

You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to God, for God is greater than I.

(John 14:28)

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

Mark 10:14

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

Mathew 6:9-10

2021 (#92)

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

(Malaguzzi)

The child asks himself: “Who am I? Where did I come from? How did the world
come into being? Who created man and all the animals? What is the purpose of life?”
True, he ponders these vital questions not in the abstract, but mainly as they pertain to
him. He worries not whether there is justice for individual man, but whether he will be
treated justly. He wonders who or what projects him into adversity, and what can prevent
this from happening to him. Are there benevolent powers? How should be form himself,
and why? Is there hope for him, though he may have done wrong? Why has all this
happened to him? What will it mean for his future? Fairy tales provide answers to these
pressing questions, many of which the child becomes aware of only as he follows the
stories.

(Bettelheim)

For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.

(Tehillim/Psalms 36:10)

it is what I have called the translation contract: hymen or marriage contract with the promise to produce a child whose seed will give rise to history and growth.

(Derrida)

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

(Tehillim/Psalms 12:7)

Long ago was the then beginning to seem like now

As now is but the setting out of a new but still

Undefined way. that now, the one once

Seen from far away, is our destiny

No matter what else may happen to us. It is

The present past of which our features,

Our opinions are made.

(John Ashbery)

Language is the house of Being, in its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

(Heidegger)

The inner work is first of all the work of God’s grace in the depth of the soul which subsequently distributes itself among the faculties of the soul, in that of Reason appearing as Belief, in that of Will as Love, and in that of Desire as Hope.

(Meister Eckhart)

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)

When waves realize that the sea is the common support, all fight ceases.–When water is realized, wave and sea vanish. What appeared as two is thus realized as one.–

(Sri Atmananda)

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)

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

(Mark 10:14)

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

(Mathew 6:9-10)

2021 (#91)

Literacy
and play, indeed all learning and play, can go together. They really must
go together; together they can and should be pleasurable and rewarding
experiences for children, and for teachers and parents as well, who clearly
want the best possible for their children now and for the future.

(Gandini)

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)

Destiny guides the water-pilot, and it is destiny.

For long we hadn’t heard so much news, such noise.

the day was warm and pleasant.

“We see you in your hair,

Air resting around the tips of mountains.”

(John Ashbery)

2 “Thus says Adonai the maker,
Adonai who formed [the universe]
so as to keep directing it —
Adonai is his name:
3 ‘Call out to me,
and I will answer you —
I will tell you great things,
hidden things of which you are unaware.

(Jeremiah/Yirmeyah 33:2-3)

This already puts us on the path to be followed. Not a particular
path leading here or there, but on the path, on the Weg or Bewegen
(path, to move along a path, to cut a path), which, leading nowhere,
marks the step that Heidegger does not distinguish from thought.
The thought on whose path we are, the thought as path or as movement
along a path is precisely what is related to that forgetting that
Heidegger does not name as a psychological or psychoanalytic category
but as the condition of Being and of the truth of Being. –

(Derrida)

Zarathustra’s two animals, the eagle and the serpent. Interpreted from
the point of view of the eternal return the eagle is like the great cycle,
the cosmic period, and the serpent is like the individual destiny
inserted into this great period. But this precise interpretation is
nevertheless insufficient, because it presupposes the eternal return
and says nothing about the preconstituent elements from which it
derives. The eagle flies in wide circles, a serpent wound round its
neck, “not like a prey but like a friend”. We see
here the necessity for the proudest affirmation to be accompanied,
paralleled, by a second affirmation which takes it as its object.

(Deleuze)

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

Mark 10:14

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

Mathew 6:9-10

2021 (#90)

 Something continues in the sub-conscious,
because what has been formed by the child can never
be totally destroyed. This Mneme, which may be con-
sidered as a superior natural memory, not only creates
characteristics, but holds them alive in the individual.
The individual changes, it is true, but those things which
are formed by the child remain in the personality just
as the legs remain, so that each man has this special
character.

Montessori

Though play can be fun, as one of
the three essential drives—love, play, work—it contributes to the best kind
of learning. Play operates as more than a creative urge; it also functions as a
fundamental mode of learning.

(Elkind)

20 The man called his wife Havah [life], because she was the mother of all living.

Bereshit/Genesis 3:20

When one’s wisdom, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete understanding and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation

(Bhagavad Gita)

When something long since passed away comes back again in a changed world, it is new. To give birth to the ancient in a new time
is creation. This is the creation of the new, and that redeems me.Salvation is the resolution of the task. The task is to give birth to the old in a new time

Jung

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

Montessori

In whatever way men approach Me, even so do I reward them; My path do men tread in all ways

(Bhagavad Gita)

¹⁸ A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. ¹⁹ When they had rowed about three or four miles,^[b] they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened. ²⁰ But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.” ²¹ Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

(John 6:18-21)

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)

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

(Mark 10:14)

the kingdom of God is within you.

(Luke 17:20)

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

(Mathew 6:10)

2021 (#89)

The most favorable situation for creativity seems to be interpersonal exchange, with negotiation of conflict and comparison of ideas and actions being decisive elements.

(Malaguzzi)

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

(Isaiah 55:12)

Let the floods clap their hands;
let the mountains sing together for joy

(Tehillim/Psalms 98:8)

O my soul, I gave you new names and colorful toys; I called you “destiny” and “circumference of circumferences” and “umbilical cord of time” and “azure bell.”

(Nietzsche/Zarathustra)

Myths and fairy stories both answer the eternal questions: What is the world
really like? How am I to live my life in it? How can I truly be myself? The answers
given by myths are definite, while the fairy tale is suggestive; its messages may imply
solutions, but it never spells them out. Fairy tales leave to the child’s fantasizing whether
and how to apply to himself what the story reveals about life and human nature.

(Bettelheim)

¹⁸ A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. ¹⁹ When they had rowed about three or four miles,^[b] they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened. ²⁰ But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.” ²¹ Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.

(John 6:18-21)

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)

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

(Mark 10:14)

the kingdom of God is within you.

(Luke 17:20)

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

(Mathew 6:10)