2022 (#42)

If you watch a small
child of three, he is always playing with something.
That means he is elaborating with his hands, putting
into his consciousness, what his unconscious mind had
taken in before. It is by this experience in the environ-
ment in the guise of playing that he goes over the
things and the impressions that he has taken into his
unconscious mind. It is by means of work that he
becomes conscious and constructs Man. He is directed
by a marvellously grand mysterious power which little
by little he incarnates and thus he becomes a Man. He
becomes a man by means of his hands, by means of his
experience, first through play, then through work.

• Montessori

We may say that we become ourselves through others and that this rule applies not only to the personality as a whole, but also to the history of every individual function.

• Vygotsky

Moshe said, “Here is what Adonai says: ‘About midnight I will go out into Egypt, 

• Exodus

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

• Mark

In Spirit, he attains heaven, conquers his mind ; becomes master of speech, sight, hearing, knowledge.

• Taittireeya-Upanishad

Adonai said to Moshe, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that still more of my wonders will be shown in the land of Egypt.”

• Exodus

³⁹ Once more he went away and prayed the same thing. ⁴⁰ When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. They did not know what to say to him.

• Mark

The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.

• Jung

²² Take a bunch of hyssop leaves and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and smear it on the two sides and top of the door-frame. Then, none of you is to go out the door of his house until morning

• Exodus

⁴¹ Returning the third time, he said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come.

• Mark

I am the other person, the other person is myself; in name and shape we are different, but there is no separation. At the root of our being we are one.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Adonai will pass over the door and will not allow the Slaughterer to enter your houses and kill you.

• Exodus

the Scriptures must be fulfilled.” ⁵⁰ Then everyone deserted him and fled.

• Mark

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

Moshe took the bones of Yosef with him

• Exodus

⁵¹ A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, ⁵² he fled naked, leaving his garment behind.

• Mark

Wind shriveled the rags that were left.
Hold on a minute, we’ll get you aloft.
No sense taking up time with vellum sunsets,

• John Ashbery

²¹ Adonai went ahead of them in a column of cloud during the daytime to lead them on their way, and at night in a column of fire to give them light; thus they could travel both by day and by night.

• Exodus

⁵⁴ Peter followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. There he sat with the guards and warmed himself at the fire.

• Mark

when the individual remains undivided and
does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must
perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.

• Jung

²¹ Moshe reached his hand out over the sea, and Adonai caused the sea to go back before a strong east wind all night. He made the sea become dry land, and its water was divided in two.

• Exodus

Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

⁶² “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

• Mark

Do what you feel like doing. Don’t bully yourself. Violence will make you hard and rigid. Don’t fight with what you take to be obstacles on your way. Just be interested in them, watch them, observe, enquire. Let anything happen — good or bad. But don’t let yourself be submerged by what happens.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You will bring them in and plant them
on the mountain which is your heritage,
the place, Adonai, that you made your abode,
the sanctuary, Adonai, which your hands established.

¹⁸ Adonai will reign forever and ever.

• Exodus

⁶³ The high priest tore his clothes.

• Mark

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

²⁰ Also Miryam the prophet, sister of Aharon, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines, dancing,

• Exodus 15:20

They all condemned him as worthy of death. ⁶⁵ Then some began to spit at him; they blindfolded him, struck him with their fists, and said, “Prophesy!” And the guards took him and beat him.

• Mark

streams of living water will flow from within him

• John 7:37

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#41)

Movement is another of these wonderful acquisi-
tions. At birth the child moves very little, then gradually
his body becomes animated. He starts to move. The
movements that the child acquires, just as is the case
with language, are not formed by chance. They are
determined in the sense that they are acquired during
a special period. When the child begins to move, his
absorbent mind has already taken in the environment.
Before he starts to move, an unconscious psychic develop-
ment has already taken place. As he starts to move,
he begins to become conscious.

• Montessori

But 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

“Here is what Adonai, God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How much longer will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go, so that they can worship me. ⁴ Otherwise, if you refuse to let my people go, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

• Exodus

“today—yes, tonight—before the rooster crows twice^[e] you yourself will disown me three times.”

• Mark

the inevitable psychological consequence is a state of conflict vividly exemplified by the Christian symbol of crucifixion—that acutestate of unredeemedness which comes to an end only with thewords “consummatum est.”

• Jung

we must celebrate a feast to Adonai.” 

• Exodus

God lives in the hollow of the heart, filling it with immortality, light, intelligence.

• Taittireeya-Upanishad

“Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” And all the others said the same.

• Mark
• Adonai reversed the wind and made it blow very strongly from the west.

• Exodus

³² They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”

• Mark

To attain a height and bird’s eye view, so one grasps how
everything actually happens as it ought to happen; how every
kind of “imperfection” and the suffering to which it gives rise
are part of the highest desirability.

• Nietzsche

Adonai made Pharaoh hardhearted,

• Exodus

³³ He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. ³⁴ “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them. 

• Mark

darkness so thick it can be felt!

• Exodus

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

• Derrida

“Stay here and keep watch.”

• Mark

² Now tell the people that every man is to ask his neighbor and every woman her neighbor for gold and silver jewelry.”

• Exodus

³⁵ Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. ³⁶ “Abba,^[f] Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

• Mark

streams of living water will flow from within him

• John 7:37

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#40)

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. This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher [mental] functions originate as actual relations between human individuals.

• Vygotsky

In this squiggle
game I make some kind of an impulsive line-drawing and
invite the child whom I am interviewing to turn it into
something, and then he makes a squiggle for me to turn
into something in my turn.

• Winnicott

²² Adonai said to Moshe, “Reach out your hand toward the sky, so that there will be hail in all the land of Egypt, falling on people, animals and everything growing in the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

• Exodus

he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

• Mark

There is no beginning and no end. You are yourself in the beginning and the end. 

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

fire ran down to the earth.

• Exodus

This seed is as it were
awakened by Jesus, purified and made capable of ascension

• Jung

²⁴ “This is my blood of the^[c] covenant, which is poured out for many,”

• Mark

²⁸ Intercede with Adonai.

• Exodus

It is the illusion of time that makes you talk of causality. When the past and the future are seen in the timeless now, as parts of a common pattern, the idea of cause-effect loses its validity and creative freedom takes its place.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

• Mark

I will spread out my hands to Adonai

• Exodus

As God is not outside but inside you, you are asked to dive within, instead of going without. What can be more easy than going to yourself? But the fact remains that to some this method will seem difficult and will not appeal. That is why so many different methods have been taught. 

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

²⁶ When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

• Mark

 the earth belongs to Adonai.

• Exodus

Paradox is acharacteristic of all transcendental situations because it alonegives adequate expression to their indescribable nature.

• Jung

“You will all fall away,”

• Mark

³⁵ Pharaoh was made hardhearted, and he didn’t let the people of Isra’el go, just as Adonai had said through Moshe.

• Exodus

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

it is written:

“‘I will strike the shepherd,
    and the sheep will be scattered.’^[d]

• Mark

Adonai said to Moshe, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have made him and his servants hardhearted, so that I can demonstrate these signs of mine among them, ² so that you can tell your son and grandson about what I did to Egypt and about my signs that I demonstrated among them, and so that you will all know that I am Adonai.”

• Exodus

You have known that the ‘I’-thought springs forth. Hold the ‘I’-thought and find its source.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

• Mark

streams of living water will flow from within him

• John 7:37

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#39)

 The child
undergoes a transformation. The impressions not only
penetrate the mind of the child, but form it. They become
incarnate. The child makes its own * mental flesh ‘ by
using the things that are in his environment. We have
called his type of mind * Absorbent Mind.

• Montessori

Making learning visible is the process of documentation and assessment that takes place during experiences conducted by teachers and
children together. Documentation truly makes visible how teachers and children construct learning together through strategies that are in harmony with children’s interests and teachers’ shared intentions.

Lella Gandini

¹³ Adonai said to Moshe, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Here is what Adonai says: “Let my people go, so that they can worship me.

• Exodus

¹⁷ When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. ¹⁸ While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”

• Mark

The effect of language is the cause introduced into the subject. By this effect [the subject] is not cause of itself, for its cause is the signifier without which there would not be any subject in the real. But this subject is what the signifier represents, and it could not represent anything except for another signifier.

• Lacan

¹⁴ For this time, I will inflict my plagues on you, yourself, and on your officials and your people; so that you will realize that I am without equal in all the earth.

• Exodus

 ²¹ The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him.

• Mark

To hear it is in no case
easy. Hearing it presupposes that we meet a certain requirement,
and we do so only on rare occasions. We must acknowledge
and respect it.

• Heidegger

¹⁵ By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with such severe plagues that you would have been wiped off the earth. ¹⁶ But it is for this very reason that I have kept you alive — to show you my power, and so that my name may resound throughout the whole earth.

• Exodus

But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

• Mark

if such men allowed their minds to grasp and hold on to anything they would be cherishing the idea of an ego entity, a personality, a being, or a separated individuality; and if they grasped and held on to the notion of things as having intrinsic qualities they would be cherishing the idea of an ego entity, a personality, a being, or a separated individuality

• Diamond Sutra

¹⁷ Since you are still setting yourself up against my people and not letting them go, ¹⁸ tomorrow, about this time, I will cause a hailstorm so heavy that Egypt has had nothing like it from the day it was founded until now.

• Exodus

²² While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”

• Mark

God thought: ‘I would be many; I will procreate.’ And in the heat of his meditation created everything; creating everything He entered into everything; entering into everything He took shape yet remained shapeless; took limits yet remained limitless; made his home, yet remained homeless; created knowledge and ignorance; reality, unreality; became everything; therefore everything is reality.

• Taittireeya-Upanishad Book 2

send and hurry to bring indoors all your livestock and everything else you have in the field. For hail will fall on every human being and animal left in the field that hasn’t been brought home, and they will die.”’”

• Exodus

²³ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

• Mark

²⁰ Whoever among Pharaoh’s servants feared what Adonai had said had his slaves and livestock escape into the houses; ²¹ but those who had no regard for what Adonai had said left their slaves and livestock in the field.

• Exodus

I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.

• John 10:9

I and the Father are One.

• John 10:30

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#38)

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

Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.

• Malaguzzi

^24 (28) Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, so that you can sacrifice to Adonai your God in the desert. Only you are not to go very far away. Intercede on my behalf.” 

• Exodus

⁷ The poor you will always have with you,^[b] and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.

• Mark

To acknowledge and respect consists in
letting every thinker’s thought come to us as something in
each case unique, never to be repeated, inexhaustible–and
being shaken to the depths by what is unthought in his
thought. 

• Heidegger

Moshe said, “All right, I am going away from you, and I will intercede with Adonai; so that tomorrow, the swarms of insects will leave Pharaoh, his servants and his people. Just make sure that Pharaoh stops playing games with the people by preventing them from going and sacrificing to Adonai.”

• Exodus

⁸ She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. ⁹ Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

• Mark

No thing in existence has a particular cause; the entire universe contributes to the existence of even the smallest thing; nothing could be as it is without the universe being what it is.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

^26 (30) Moshe left Pharaoh and interceded with Adonai, ^27 (31) and Adonai did what Moshe had asked: he removed the swarms of insects from Pharaoh, his servants and his people — not one remained.^28 (32) But this time, too, Pharaoh made himself stubborn and didn’t let the people go.

• Exodus

“Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

• Mark

” … such men will not fall back to cherishing the idea of an ego entity, a personality, a being, or a separated individuality. they will neither fall back to cherishing the idea of things as having intrinsic qualities, nor even of things as devoid of intrinsic qualities.”

• Diamond Sutra

Pharaoh’s heart remained stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.

• Exodus

¹⁴ Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’

• Mark

The relative abolition of the ego affects only
those supreme and ultimate decisions which confront us in
situations where there are insoluble conflicts of duty. This
means, in other words, that in such cases the ego is a suffering
bystander who decides nothing but must submit to a decision and
surrender unconditionally.

• Jung

⁸ Adonai said to Moshe and Aharon, “Take handfuls of ashes from a kiln, and let Moshe throw them in the air before Pharaoh’s eyes. ⁹ They will turn into fine dust over all the land of Egypt and become infected sores on men and animals throughout Egypt.”

• Exodus

¹⁵ He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

• Mark

 The false ‘I’ will disappear and the real ‘I’ will be realized.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

 ¹¹ The magicians couldn’t even stand in Moshe’s presence because of the sores, which were on them as well as on the other Egyptians. ¹² But Adonai made Pharaoh hardhearted, so that he didn’t listen to them — just as Adonai had said to Moshe.

• Exodus

¹⁶ The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.

• Mark

 The more original the
thinking, the richer will be what is unthought in it. The
unthought is the greatest gift that thinking can bestow.

• Heidegger

A heart at peace gives life to the body

• Proverbs/Mashal

And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.

• John 10:28

The Lord watches over all who love him

• Tehillim/Psalms 145:20

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

³¹ If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. ³² There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.

• John 5:31

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#37)

When we understand that
these powers belong to an unconscious mind which must
become conscious by work and experience carried out
in the environment, when we realise that the child’s
mind is different from ours, that we cannot reach it and
teach him things, that we cannot directly intervene in
this process of passing from the unconscious to the
conscious and of constructing the human faculties ; then
the whole conception of education will change and will
become that of a help to the child’s life. Education will
take the guise of an aid to the psychic development of
man and not of making him memorize ideas and facts.

• Montessori

Teaching is even more difficult than learning. We
know that; but we rarely think about it. And why is teaching
more difficult than learning? Not because the teacher
must have a larger store of information, and have it always
ready. Teaching is more difficult than learning because
what teaching calls for is this: to let learn.

• Heidegger

 the frogs died in the houses, courtyards and fields

• Exodus

²⁸ “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.

• Mark

Remembering to forgive. Remember to pass beyond you into the day

On the wings of the secret you will never know.

Taking me from myself, in the path

Which the pastel girth of the day has assigned to me.

• John Ashbery

he made himself hardhearted and would not listen to them, just as Adonai had said would happen

• Exodus

³¹ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away

• Mark

From the fruit of their lips people enjoy good things

• Proverbs/Mashal

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them and they follow Me.

• John 10:27

the impulses which we find in ourselves
should be understood as the “will of God,” I wish to emphasize
that they ought not to be regarded as an arbitrary wishing and
willing, but as absolutes …

• Jung

^12 (16) Adonai said to Moshe, “Say to Aharon: ‘Reach out with your staff and strike the dust on the ground; it will become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’” ^13 (17) They did it — Aharon reached out his hand with his staff and struck the dust on the ground, and there were lice on people and animals; all the dust on the ground became lice throughout the whole land of Egypt.

• Exodus

³² “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. ³³ Be on guard! Be alert^[e]! You do not know when that time will come.

• Mark

He is not knowable by perception, turned inward or outward, nor by both combined. He is neither that which is known, nor that which is not known, nor is He the sum of all that might be known. He cannot be seen, grasped, bargained with. He is undefinable, unthinkable, indescribable.

• Mandookya Upanishad

^15 (19) Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh was made hardhearted, so that he didn’t listen to them, just as Adonai had said would happen.

• Exodus

³⁷ What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’

• Mark

Wholeness is thus an objective factor that confronts the subject independently of him,

• Jung

Adonai did it: terrible swarms of insects went into Pharaoh’s palace and into all his servants’ houses — the insects ruined the entire land of Egypt.

• Exodus

³ While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

• Mark

Since her arm out of the dust has raised me,
Beats my heart so boldly and serene;
And my cheek still tingles with her kisses,
Flushed and glowing where her lips have been.

• Holderlin

we will go three days’ journey into the desert and sacrifice to Adonai our God, as he has ordered us to do.”

• Exodus

She has done a beautiful thing to me. ⁷

• Mark

The only proof of His existence is union with Him. The world disappears in Him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second.

• Mandookya Upanishad

I and the Father are One.

• John 10:30

2022 (#36)

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

¹⁹ Adonai said to Moshe, “Say to Aharon, ‘Take your staff, reach out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, canals, ponds and all their reservoirs, so that they can turn into blood. There will be blood throughout the whole land of Egypt, even in the wooden buckets and stone jars.’”

• Exodus

²⁰ “If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.

• Mark

It seems as if this expectation
coincides with the astrological conception of the “Platonic
month” of the Fishes.

• Jung

²⁴ All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink, because they couldn’t drink the river water.

• Exodus

“‘the sun will be darkened,
    and the moon will not give its light;
²⁵ the stars will fall from the sky,
    and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’^[c]

• Mark 13:25 Isaiah 13:10; 34:4

< Heavens (head), sun (eye), air (breath), fire (heart), water (belly), earth (feet), and space (body).

• Mondokya Upanishad

²⁵ Seven days after Adonai had struck the river, ^26 (8:1) Adonai said to Moshe, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Here is what Adonai says: “Let my people go, so that they can worship me. ^27 (8:2) If you refuse to let them go, I will strike all your territory with frogs. ^28 (8:3) The river will swarm with frogs. They will go up, enter your palace and go into your bedroom, onto your bed. They will enter the houses of your servants and your people and go into your ovens and kneading bowls. ^29 (8:4) The frogs will climb all over you, your people and your servants.”’

• Exodus

²⁶ “At that time people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. ²⁷ And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.

• Mark

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

The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

• John 6:63

⁸ 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.”^[a]

• 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

2022 (#35)

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

¹⁵ Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water.

• Exodus

On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

• Mark

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Let my people go, so that they can worship me in the desert.”

• Exodus

Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

• Mark

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

Adonai says, “This will let you know that I am Adonai”: I will take the staff in my hand and strike the water in the river, and it will be turned into blood.

• Exodus

³⁰ By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

• John 5:30

¹⁸ And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.

• Ephesians 6:18

The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

• John 6:63

⁸ 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.”^[a]

• 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

2022 (#34)

A vital force is active in the individual and
leads it towards its own evolution. This force has been
called Horme.

• Montessori

⁸ The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ⁹ “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”

• Exodus

³⁸ As he taught, Jesus said, “Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, 

• Mark

The blank is seen by you. You are there to see the blank. What do you wait for?

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

¹¹ Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts:

• Exodus

⁴¹ Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury.

• Mark

Know the male, yet keep to the female: receive the world in your arms.

• Tao Te Ching

¹² Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

• Exodus

² “Do you see all these great buildings?” replied Jesus. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.

• Mark

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

• Emerson

³ Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

• Exodus

Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple

• Mark

summed up in the word ‘seed’ , stars as seeds. the star-seeds will be linked with male and female milk

• Derrida

 ¹⁵ Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. 

• Exodus

 ⁷ When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

• Mark

The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

• John 6:63

⁸ 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.”^[a]

• 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

2022 (#33)

We need to produce
situations in which children learn by themselves, in
which children can take advantage of their own
knowledge and resources autonomously, and in
which we guarantee the intervention of the adult as
little as possible.

• Malaguzzi

²⁷ The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God.

• Exodus

The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

• Mark

What we want to do is
activate within children the desire and will and great
pleasure that comes from being the authors of their
own learning.

• Malaguzzi

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

‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.’”

• Exodus

³⁰ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

• Mark

 It is the doubling of the heart itself, nay, the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side. It inspires in man an infallible trust. 

• Emerson

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

• Exodus

Love your neighbor as yourself

• Mark

 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

³ But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart,

• Exodus

“You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. ³³ To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

• Mark

ask the tender

cloud

• William Blake

⁶ Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them. ⁷ Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.. L

“You are not far from the kingdom of God.”

• Mark

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold and one Shepherd.

And I have other sheep which are not from this fold. I must bring these also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock—one shepherd.

I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

There are many more sheep than you can see here, and I will bring them as well. They will hear My voice, and the flock will be united. One flock. One shepherd.

• John 10:16

The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

• John 6:63

⁸ 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.”^[a]

• 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