2021 (#163)

Children start to understand when they start to put things into relationship. And the joy of children is to put together things which are apparently far away!

(Loris Malaguzzi)

It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart beats with nobler sense of power and duty, and thinks and acts
with unusual solemnity. All are conscious of attaining to a
higher self-possession. It shines for all.

(Emerson)

 And the more difficult is the situation–the more problems the children have put to themselves–then the more relationships they can make, the more their curiosity will grow, and the more questions they will continue to ask.

(Loris Malaguzzi)

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)

For Adonai gives wisdom;
from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

(Mashal/Proverbs 2:6)

We are wiser than we know ..
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 every thing, and every man. For the Maker of all
things and all persons stands behind us and casts his dread omvUscience through us over things.

(Emerson)

How good and pleasant it is
    when God’s people live together in unity!

(Psalms/Tehillim 133:1)

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)

He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
    he sends lightning with the rain
    and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

(Tehillim/Psalsm 135:7)

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

(Mathew 6:9-10)

2021 (#162)

[Our goal is always] to put everything together, to try to widen the power of our intelligence through the possibilities of relationship

(Loris Malaguzzi)

The subject-matter, just as it is for the scientist, has no direct relationship to the child’s present experience. It stands outside of it. The danger here is not a merely theoretical one. We are practically threatened on all sides. Textbook and teacher vie with each other in presenting to the child the subject-matter as it stands to the specialist. Such modification and revision as it undergoes are a mere elimination of certain scientific difficulties, and the general reduction to a lower intellectual level. The material is not translated into life-terms, but is directly offered as a substitute for, or an external annex to, the child’s present life.

(John Dewey)

For the sake of my family and friends,
    I will say, “Peace be within you.”

(Tehillim/Psalms 122:8)

An analysis which is not merely a theoretical analysis, but at the same time another writing of the question of Being or meaning: deconstruction is also a manner or writing and putting forward another text.

(Derrida)

⁰ All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.

(John 17:10)

Persons themselves acquaint us
with the impersonal. In all conversation between two persons
tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

(Emerson)

For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
    I will seek your prosperity.

(Psalms/Tehillim 122:9)

¹⁷ Sanctify them by^[d] the truth; your word is truth.

(John 17:17)

Our mouths were filled with laughter,
    our tongues with songs of joy.

(Tehillim/Psalsm 126:2)

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

(Romans 8:1-2)

One mode of the divine teaching is the incarnation of the
spirit in a form-in forms, like my own.

(Emerson)

The Lord has done great things for us,
    and we are filled with joy.

(Tehillim/Psalms 126:3)

Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

(Colossians 4:5-6)

For it is necessary in
each situation to create an appropriate mode of
exposition, to invent the law of the singular event.

(Derrida)

And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

(Mathew 18:5)

25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

(John 14:25-27)

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

(Mathew 6:9-10)

2021 (#161)

The map is not a substitute for a personal experience. The map does not take the place of an actual journey. The logically formulated material of a science or branch of learning, of a study, is no substitute for the having of individual experiences. The mathematical formula for a falling body does not take the place of personal contact and immediate individual experience with the falling thing..

(John Dewey)

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

(Tehillim/Psalm 51:12)

the kingdom of God is in your midst.

(Luke 17:21)

The soul’s advances are not made by gradation, such as can be represented by motion in a straight line, but
rather by ascension of state, such as can be represented by
metamorphosis-from the egg to the worm, from the worm to
the fly.

Emerson

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

(Mathew 5:7)

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

Derrida

There is, then, nothing final about a logical rendering of experience. Its value is not contained in itself; its significance is that of standpoint, outlook, method. It intervenes between the more casual, tentative, and roundabout experiences of the past, and more controlled and orderly experiences of the future. It gives past experience in that net form which renders it most available and most significant, most fecund for future experience. The abstractions, 22generalizations, and classifications which it introduces all have prospective meaning.

(John Dewey)

Direct my footsteps according to your word

(Tehillim/Psalms 119:133)

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)

I call with all my heart

(Tehillim/Psalms 119:145)

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

(Mathew 5:8)

Hear my voice in accordance with your love

(Tehillim/Psalms 119:149)

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

2021 (#160)

“Any system of education, any theory of pedagogy, any ‘grand national policy’ that diminishes the school’s role in nurturing a pupils’ self esteem fails at one of its primary functions.

(Jerome Bruner)

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart,
    for they will see God.

(Mathew 5:8)

The child walks with his eyes
as well as his legs, and it is the interesting things in the
environment that carry him along.

(Montessori)

My soul, return to your rest!
For Adonai has been generous toward you.

(Tehillim/Psalms 116:7)

as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man’s particular being is contained and made one with all other.

(Emerson)

And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

(Mark 10:16)

The school has the function also of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters. One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. As a person passes from one of the environments to another, he is subjected to antagonistic pulls, and is in danger of being split into a being having different standards of judgment and emotion for different occasions. This danger imposes upon the school a steadying and integrating office.

(John Dewey)

that common heart, of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission

(Emerson)

That which returns is the constant affirmation, the “yes, yes” on which I insisted yesterday. That which signs here is in the form of a return, which is to say it has the form of something that cannot be simple. It is a selective return without negativity, or which reduces negativity through affirmation, through alliance or marriage (hymen), that is, through an affirmation that is also binding on the other or that enters into a pact with itself as other.

(Derrida)

 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

(Mathew 6:21)

I will raise the cup of salvation
and call on the name of Adonai.

(Tehillim/Psalms116:13)

Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

(John 4:13-14)

By virtue of this inevitable nature, private will is overpowered, and maugre our efforts or our imperfections, your genius will speak from you, and mine from me. That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never voluntarily opened. Character teaches over our head.

(Emerson)

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

For whoever does the ratzon Hashem, this one is my brother and my sister and mother.

(Markos 3:35)

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

(Mathew 6:10)

2021 (#159)

If school is an entry into the culture and not just a preparation for it, then we must constantly reassess what school does to the young student’s conception of his own powers (his sense of agency) and his sensed chances of being able to cope with the world both in school and after (his self-esteem). In many democratic cultures, I think, we have become so preoccupied with the more formal criteria of ‘performance’ and with the bureaucratic demands of education as an institution that we have neglected this personal side of education.

(Jerome Bruner)

He distributes freely

(Tehillim/Psalms 112:9)

Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

(john 17:24)

This human mind wrote history, and this must read it. The Sphinx must solve her own riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours. 

(Emerson)

His power will be increased honorably.

(Tehillim/Psalsm 112:10)

²⁵ “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. ²⁶ I have made you^[e] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

(John 17:25-26)

We teach a subject not to produce little libraries on that subject, but rather to get a student to think … for himself, to consider matters as a historian does, to take part in the process of knowledge–getting. Knowing is a process, not a product.

(Jerome Bruner)

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

cient times

(William Blake)

Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people…, and then within the child.

(Vygotsky)

What we have to do now is draw out the image of the
child, draw the child out of the desperate situations
that many children find themselves in. If we redeem
the child from these difficult situations, we redeem
ourselves.

(Malaguzzi)

You are the constant illumination that lights up both the experience
and the void.

(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopaedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play. In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps, and do not believe in remedial force, in the power of change and reform. But some Petrarch or Ariosto, filled with the new wine of his imagination, writes me an ode or a brisk romance, full of daring thought and action. He smites and arouses me with his shrill tones, breaks up my whole chain of habits, and I open my eye on my own possibilities. He claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.

(Emerson)

“The most important is,

‘Sh’ma Yisra’el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, O Isra’el, the Lord our God, the Lord is one], ³⁰ and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.’^[d]

³¹ The second is this:

‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’^[e]

There is no other mitzvah greater than these.”

(Mark 29:12-9)

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 6:10)

2021 (#158)

The con-
sideration of personality, the development of human
potentialities must become the centre of education.

(Malaguzzi)

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)

 And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

(Mark 10:16)

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)

In myths about the birth of heroes-to which Otto Rank [1909] has devoted a study… a predominant part is played by exposure in the water and rescue from the water. Rank has perceived that these are representations of birth, analogous to those that are usually in dreams… In myths a person who rescues a baby from the water is admitting that she is the baby’s true mother. 

(Freud)

  Pretty, pretty robin,
   Near my bosom.

(William Blake)

²² I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— ²³ I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity.

(John 17:22-23)

   Arise from their graves, and aspire
     Where my Sunflower wishes to go!

(William Blake)

The bliss is in the awareness of it, in not shrinking, or in any way turning away from it. All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. 

(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

streams of living water will flow from within him

(John 7:37)

   Sleep, sleep, happy child!
   All creation slept and smiled.

(William Blake)

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

(Tehillim/Psalms 110:7)

… water welling up to eternal life.

(John 4:14)

Adonai is merciful and compassionate.

(Tehillim 111:4)

 Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
   The feet of angels bright;
     Unseen they pour blessing,
     And joy without ceasing,
     On each bud and blossom,
     And each sleeping bosom.

(William Blake)

a doe set free
that bears beautiful fawns. 

(Jeremiah )

There are many things that are part of a child’s life just as they are part of an adult’s life. The desire to do something for someone, for instance. Every adult has a need to feel that we are seen/observed by others. (Observing others is also important.) This is just as true for children as for adults.

(Malaguzzi)

 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

(Mathew 6:21)

Let’s go back a little and start out again from the question “who?” 

(Derrida)

That is why I said, ‘Anyone the Father does not help to come to me cannot come.’
That is the reason I said, ·‘If the Father does not bring a person to me, that one cannot come.’
That is why I told you that people cannot come to me unless the Father provides the way.
This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for them to do so.
This is why I have been telling you that no one comes to Me without the Father’s blessing and guidance.

(John 6:64-65)

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)

   Leopards, tigers, play
   Round her as she lay;
   While the lion old
   Bowed his mane of gold,

(William Blake)

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)

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

Mathew 6:9-10

2021 (#157)

Education will
take the guise of an aid to the psychic development of
man.

(Montessori)

May I venture at this point to state the greatest, the most important, the most useful rule of education? It is: Do not save time, but lose it.

(Rousseau)

We must free childhood from repression that weighs upon it

(Montessori)

Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

(John 16:24)

I am singing of grace and justice;
I am singing to you, Adonai.

(Tehillim/Psalms 101:1)

I hope that every-day readers will excuse my paradoxes; you cannot avoid paradox if you think for yourself, and whatever you may say I would rather fall into paradox than into prejudice. The most dangerous period in human life lies between birth and the age of twelve. It is the time when errors and vices spring up, while as yet there is no means to destroy them; when the means of destruction are ready, the roots have gone too deep to be pulled up. If the infant sprang at one bound from its mother’s breast to the age of reason, the present type of education would be quite suitable, but its natural growth calls for quite a different training. The mind should be left undisturbed till its faculties have developed; for while it is blind it cannot see the torch you offer it, nor can it follow through the vast expanse of ideas a path so faintly traced by reason that the best eyes can scarcely follow it.

(Rousseau)

 I am not alone, for my Father is with me.

(John 16:32)

The Lilly of the valley, breathing in the humble grass

(William Blake)

A happy heart makes the face cheerful,

(Proverbs/Mashal)

The hallmarks of spirit are, firstly, the principle of spontaneous
movement and activity;

(Jung)

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.

(John 16:33)

This is indeed hospitality par excellence in which the visitor radically overwhelms the self of the ‘visited’ and the chez-soi of the host.

(Derrida)

Conversation is a game of circles. 

(Emerson)

God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went, filled the skin with water and gave the boy water to drink.

(Bereshit/Genesis 21:19)

⁴ I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. ⁵ And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

(John 17:4)

 secondly, the spontaneous capacity to produce
images independently of sense perception;

(Jung)

²⁰ God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the desert and became an archer.

(Bereshit/Genesis 21:20)

Complete surrender is another name for liberation.

(Sri Ramana Maharshi)

I will run my life with a sincere heart

(Tehillim 101:2)

⁶ “I have revealed you^[a] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. ⁸ For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. 

(John 17:6-8)

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

(Mathew 6:9-10)

2021 (#156)

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

(Montessori)

When our natural tendencies have not been interfered with by human prejudice and human institutions, the happiness alike of children and of men consists in the enjoyment of their liberty.

(Rousseau)

¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

(John 15:15)

Fill your servant’s heart with joy,
for to you, Adonai, I lift my heart.

(Tehillim 86:4)

Attachment destroys courage. The giver is always ready to give. The taker is absent. Freedom means letting go.

(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

Adonai, you are kind and forgiving,
full of grace toward all who call on you.

(Tehillim 86:5)

¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

(John 15:16)

Nature provides for the child’s growth in her own fashion, and this should never be thwarted. Do not make him sit still when he wants to run about, nor run when he wants to be quiet. If we did not spoil our children’s wills by our blunders their desires would be free from caprice. Let them run, jump, and shout to their heart’s content. All their own activities are instincts of the body for its growth in strength; but you should regard with suspicion those wishes which they cannot carry out for themselves, those which others must carry out for them. Then you must distinguish carefully between natural and artificial needs, between the needs of budding caprice and the needs which spring from the overflowing life just described.

(Rousseau)

They go from strength to strength
and appear before God in Tziyon.

(Tehillim 84:8)

Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul.

(Emerson)

Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go everything. The giving up is the first step. But the real giving up is in realising that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own.

(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

For you are great, and you do wonders;
you alone are God.

(Tehillim 86:10)

²⁶ “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. ²⁷ And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.

(John 15:26)

The configurative unity of these significations-the power of speech, the
creation of being and life, the sun…

(Derrida)

“God is with you in everything you do.”

(Bereshit 21:22)

¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. ¹³ But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

(John 16:12-15)

It inspires in man an infallible trust. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is true, and may in that thought easily dismiss all particular uncertainties and fears, and adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles. He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.

(Emerson)

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)

2021 (#155)

This theory within you pushes you to behave in
certain ways; it orients you as you talk to the child,
listen to the child, observe the child..

(Malaguzzi)

We must
free childhood from repression that weighs upon it

(Montessori)

¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 

(John 15:11)

Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

(Tehillim/Psalms 100:4)

Oh, man! live your own life and you will no longer be wretched. Keep to your appointed place in the order of nature and nothing can tear you from it. Do not kick against the stern law of necessity, nor waste in vain resistance the strength bestowed on you by heaven, not to prolong or extend your existence, but to preserve it so far and so long as heaven pleases. Your freedom and your power extend as far and no further than your natural strength; anything more is but slavery, deceit, and trickery. 

(Rousseau)

 I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

(John 15:15)

The unfolding of your words gives light

(Tehillim/Psalms 119:130)

The peace, freedom and blessedness of all souls consist in their abiding in God’s will. Towards this union with God for which it is created the soul strives perpetually.

(Meister Eckhart)

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition

(Dewey)

The Lord watches over all who love him

(Tehillim/Psalms 145:20)

The environment you construct around you and the
children also reflects this image you have about the
child.

(Malaguzzi)

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

(Mark 10:14)

¹¹ In him we were also chosen,^[e] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 

(Ephesians 1:11)

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

(Mathew 6:9-10)

2021 (#154)

It is
evident that if the child meets with obstacles, his creative
work becomes less perfect. We do not any longer help
the child because he is a small and weak being. No ! We
have realised that the child is endowed with great creative
powers, that these great powers are delicate in their
nature and can be thwarted if obstacles are placed in
their path. It is these powers we wish to help, not the
small child, not his weakness..

(Montessori)

Sing a new song to Adonai,
because he has done wonders.

(Tehillim 98:1)

³ You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

(John 15:3)

The principle and idea today are too much directed
towards self- perfection, . If we understand
the real aim of movement this self-centralization cannot
exist ; it must expand into the immensity of space.

(Montessori)

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

(Bereshit 32:2)

⁴ Remain in me, as I also remain in you.

(John 15:4)

In ascending
to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from
our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the
centre of the world, where, as in the closet of God, we see causes,
and anticipate the universe, which is but a slow effect.

(Emerson)

We must, in short, keep in mind what might be called the
philosophy of movement ‘.

(Montessori)

you have existed forever.

(Tehillim 93:2)

No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

(John 15:4)

Do not be afraid, for I am with you

(Bereshit 26:24)

⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing

(John 15:5)

If only today you would listen to his voice

(Tehillim 95:7)

the kingdom of God is within you.

-(Luke 17:20)

In it’s essence, language is neither expression nor an activity of man. Language speaks. Accordingly, what we seek lies in the poetry of the spoken word.

(Heidegger)

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, 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)

⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

(John 15:6-8)

⁷ But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.

(Ephesians 4:7)

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
¹⁰ your kingdom come,
your will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven..

(Mathew 6:9-10)