2022 (#67)

It is not the professor who
applies psychology to children, it is the children them-
selves who teach psychology to the professor. This may
seem obscure but it will become immediately clear if we
go somewhat more into detail : the child has a type of
mind that absorbs knowledge and instructs himself.

• Montessori

‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will have been rescued.’”

• 1 Samuel

Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish.

• Mathew

Accordingly our four double pyramids would arrange themselves in a circle and form the well-known uroboros.

• Jung

came to a forest where there was a honeycomb on the ground.

• 1 Samuel

 “Have you understood all these things?” 

• Mathew

Most people do not have sufficient range of consciousness to become aware of the opposites inherent in human nature. The tensions they generate remain for the most part unconscious, but can appear in dreams.

• Jung

When the people had entered the forest, they saw there the honeycomb with honey dripping out;

1 Samuel

Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed.

• Mathew

Gabrielle [now aged two and three quarters] put the two big soft animals
together and said: “They are together and are fond of each other.’ She was
also joining two carriages of a train.”
D.W.W.: “And they are making babies.”
Gabrielle: “No, they are making friends.”

• Winnicott

he put out the end of the staff in his hand, dipped it in the honeycomb and raised it to his mouth; whereupon his eyes lit up.

• 1 Samuel

You mop your forehead with a rose, recommending its thorns.

Research has shown that ballads were produced by all of society;

only night knows for sure. The secret is safe with her:

The people, then, knew what they wanted and how to get it.

• John Ashbery

 As Adonai lives, not one hair of his head will fall to the ground; because he worked with God today!”

• 1 Samuel

And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.

• Mathew

This condensation of three meanings of the word “impression” was only able to imprint itself in me in a single stroke, apparently in an instant of no duration, after much work, discontinuous though it may have been, with Freud’s texts, with certain of his writings, but also with themes, with figures, with conceptual schemes which are familiar to me to the point of obsession and yet remain no less secret, young and still to come for me: thus writing, the trace, inscription, on an exterior substrate or on the so-called body proper, as for example, and this is not just any example for me, that singular and immemorial archive called circumcision, and which, though never leaving you, nonethe- less has come about, and is no less exterior, exterior right on your body proper.

• Derrida

 “Stand up and anoint him; he’s the one.”

• 1 Samuel

 “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

• Mathew

the ground water stored up in the earth
Good fortune without blame
this discipline must not be achieved by force. It requires a strong man who captures the hearts of the people and awakens their enthusiasm.

• I Ching

 “Send me David your son, who is out with the sheep.”

• 1 Samuel

His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, who carried it to her mother. ¹² John’s disciples came and took his body and buried it.

• Mathew

If justice and perseverance are the basis of action, all goes well.
In the middle of the earth is water
generosity toward the people
a people living under a mild rule becomes strong and powerful.
improving the economic condition of the people
A just and valid cause must exist.

• I Ching

When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

• Mathew

David would take the lyre and play it

• 1 Samuel

Freedom is another nonsensical idea. I am living socially,
in a group, which limits me in all my movements, mental as
well as physical. Even when I am alone I am not at all free.
I have all kinds of impulses which are not always under my con-
trol. Some impulses carry me away in spite of myself. As long
as we are living in this limited world, we can never talk about
being free or doing as we desire. Even this desire is something
which is not our own.

• D.T. Suzuki

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

Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#66)

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

“Don’t worry. Adonai is with you on this journey.”

• Judges

blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

• Mathew

it represents at
the same time an assimilation and integration of Christ into the
human psyche. The result is seen in the growth of the human
personality and in the development of consciousness.

• Jung

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

 many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

• Mathew

On the fourth day they got up early in the morning

• Judges

This disadjustrnent will no doubt never end. Doubtless it will reverse itself, and we’ll have the revolution within the revolution, the future revolution that, without mourning, wins out over the past revolution: it will finally be the event, the advent of the event, the coming of the future-to-come.

• Derrida

the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.

• Mathew

Gnosis is undoubtedly a psychological knowledge whose contents derive from the unconscious.

• Jung

“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. ³² Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.”

• Mathew

“Where are you going, and where are you coming from?” 

• Judges

Why do I now underscore that expression: “what is happening?” Because
for me this belongs to the order of the absolutely unforeseeable, which
is always the condition of any event. Even when it seems to go back to
a buried past, what comes about always comes from the future.

• Derrida

“The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds^[b] of flour until it worked all through the dough.”

• Mathew

From the circle and quaternity motif is derived the symbol of the geometrically formed crystal and the wonder-working stone. From here analogy formation leads on to the city, castle,
church, house, and vessel. Another variant is the wheel (rota).

• Jung

“I will open my mouth in parables,
    I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.

• Tehillim 78:2

The Gita starts by saying that you are not the body and that you are not therefore the karta [the doer].

It means that one should act without thinking that oneself is the actor. Actions will go on even in the egoless state. Each person has come into manifestation for a certain purpose and that purpose will be accomplished whether he considers himself to be the actor or not.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.

• Mathew

They fasted that day until evening

• Judges

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

• John 12:44

Act in accordance with the situation and keep still
Contemplating the image,
The superior person comprehends
The alternatiion of increase and decrease,
Also the alternation of fullness and emptiness.
It is the Tao of Heaven.

• I Ching

¹¹ Let the heavens rejoice; let the earth be glad;
let the sea roar, and everything in it;
¹² let the fields exult and all that is in them.
Then all the trees in the forest will sing

• Tehillim 96:11-12

You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

• John 14:14

All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” ⁶ He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.

• 1 Kings 19:6

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#65)

Storytelling performs the dual cultural functions of making the strange familiar and ourselves private and distinctive. If pupils are encouraged to think about the different outcomes that could have resulted from a set of circumstances, they are demonstrating useability of knowledge about a subject. Rather than just retaining knowledge and facts, they go beyond them to use their imaginations to think about other outcomes, as they don’t need the completion of a logical argument to understand a story. This helps them to think about facing the future, and it stimulates the teacher too.

• Jerome Bruner

 The woman bore a son and called him Shimshon (Samson).

• Judges

Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see.

• Mathew

The unconscious God-image can therefore alter the state of consciousness, just as the latter can modify the God-image once it has become conscious.

• Jung

Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature?

• Emerson

The child grew, and Adonai blessed him. 

• Judges

if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

• Mathew

They arise from the collision between the conscious and the unconscious and from the confusion which this causes

• Jung

The Spirit of Adonai began to stir him

• Judges

Ashes or cinders are obviously traces – in general, the first figure of the trace one thinks of is that of the step, along a path, the step that lives a footprint, a trace, or a vestige

• Derrida

Empirically, this confusion takes the form of restlessness and disorientation. The circle and quaternity symbolism appears at this point as a compensating principle of order, which depicts the union of warring opposites as already accomplished, and thus eases the way to a healthier and quieter state (“salvation”).

• Jung

 His father and mother didn’t know that all this came from Adonai

• Judges

whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.

• Mathew

But, since this totality exceeds the individual’s consciousness to an indefinite and indeterminable extent, it invariably includes the unconscious in its orbit and hence the totality of all archetypes.

• Jung

there was now a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

• Judges

Lest the reader be confused by this wealth of images, he should always remember that each newimage is simply another aspect of the divine mystery immanentin all creatures.

• Jung

He scraped the honey out into his hands and went on, eating as he went; and when he came to his father and mother, he gave them some; and they ate too.

• Judges

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do
not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun
illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the
heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward
senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit
of infancy even into the era of manhood.

• Emerson

Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.

• Mathew

The splitting of the Original Man into husband and wife expresses an act of nascent consciousness; it gives birth to a pair of opposites, thereby making consciousness possible. For thebeholder of the miracle, Mary, the vision was the spontaneousvisualization or projection of an unconscious process in herself.

• Jung

“Don’t worry. Adonai is with you on this journey.”

• Judges

… a structure of alteration without opposition. That which seems, then, to make the belonging — a belonging without interiority — of death to pleasure more continuous, more immanent, and more natural too …

• Derrida

If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

• John 3:12

thy breasts are better than wine

• Song of Solomon 1:1

The river of water is the “Saviour” himself. 123 Christ is the river that pours into the world through the four
gospels, like the rivers of Paradise.

• Jung

Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

• John 6 : 54

 ³⁵ The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.

• 1 Kings 18:25

Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

• Ephesians 5 : 14

Self-knowledge
reveals the fact that the soul’s natural movement is not in a
straight line, unless indeed it have undergone some deviation.
On the contrary, it circles around something interior, around a
centre. Now the centre is that from which proceeds the circle,
that is, the soul. The soul will therefore move around the centre,
that is, around the principle from which she proceeds; and,
trending towards it, she will attach herself to it, as indeed all
souls should do. The souls of the divinities ever direct themselves
towards it, and that is the secret of their divinity; for divinity
consists in being attached to the centre.

• Plotinus

stone was cut out of a mountain with- out hands

• Daniel 2:34

The bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.

• John 6:33

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

• Mathew

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#64)

It’s important for the teacher who works with young children to understand that she knows little about children. Teachers need to learn to see the children, to listen to them, to know when they are feeling some distance from us as adults and from children, when they are distracted, when they are surrounded by a shadow of happiness and pleasure, and when they are surrounded by a shadow of sadness and suffering. 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. Children get to know each other through all their senses. Touching the hair of another child is very important. Smell is important. This is a way children are able to understand the identity of themselves and the identity of others.

Malaguzzi

Then the angel of Adonai came and sat under the pistachio tree

• Judges

This magnetic process revolutionizes the ego-oriented psyche
by setting up, in contradistinction to the ego, another goal or
centre which is characterized by all manner of names and symbols: fish, serpent, centre of the sea-hawk,14 point, monad, cross,
paradise, and so on.

• Jung

Good fortune in turning upside down, seeking nourishment. The one above sheds light.

• I Ching

All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

• Mathew

Then the angel of Adonai reached out with the stick he was holding, touched the meat and matzot, and fire shot up out of the rock and burned up the meat and matzot

• Judges

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 self into the Self (Atman), the duality of ‘I’ and ‘this’ goes and the identity of the outer and the inner, the Supreme Reality manifests itself.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Like a magnet, the new centre attracts to itself that which is proper to it, the “signs of the Father,” i.e., everything that pertains to the original and unalterable character of the individualground-plan.

• Jung

He got up early in the morning, pressed the fleece together and wrung dew out of it, a bowlful of water.

• Judges

VIEW, look at carefully, gaze at; also: a monastery, an observatory; scry, divine through liquid in a cup. The ideogram: see and waterbird, observe through air or water

• I Ching

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

• Mathew

WORSHIP, make sacrifice; recommend or introduce yourself. The ideogram: leading animals to green pastures.

• I Ching

The mouth, through which prayers go out and food goes in, corresponds to the fourth river,
the Euphrates. The well-known significance of the “fourth”
helps to explain its connection with the “whole” man, for the
fourth always makes a triad into a totality. The text says: “Thisis the water above the firmament,2 of which, they say, the
Saviour spoke: 4 If you knew who it is that asks, you would haveasked him, and he would have given you a spring of living water
to drink.’

• Jung

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

 So the trees said to the grapevine, ‘You, come and rule over us!’ ¹³ But the grapevine replied, ‘Am I supposed to leave my wine, which gives cheer to God and humanity, just to go and hold sway over the trees?’

• Judges

She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart.

• Tao Te Ching

As the reference to John 4:10 shows, the wonderful water
of the Euphrates has the property of the aqua doctrinae, which
perfects every nature in its individuality and thus makes man
whole too. It does this by giving him a kind of magnetic power
by which he can attract and integrate that which belongs to him

• Jung

I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. ⁷ If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’^[a] you would not have condemned the innocent. ⁸ For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

• Mathew

From our perception of the world there follows acceptance of a unique First Principle possessing various powers. Pictures of name and form, the person who sees, the screen on which he sees, and the light by which he sees: he himself is all of these.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

They went out into the field, gathered their grapes and pressed the juice out of them.

• Judges

From every-one of the Four Regions of Human Majesty
There is an Outside spread Without & an Outside spread

Within,

Beyond the Outline of Identity both ways, which meet

in One

• William Blake

the magnetic attraction does not come from the doctrine or the water but from the “Son,” who is symbolized by the
serpent, as in John 3 : 14. Christ is the magnet that draws to itself those parts or substances in man that are of divine origin,

• Jung

his daughter came dancing out to meet him with tambourines

• Judges

Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. 

• Mathew

Multiplicity and migration of languages, certainly, and within language itself, Babel within a single language … multiplicity within language, insignificant difference as the condition of meaning. But by the same token, the insignificance of language, of the properly linguistic body : it can only take on meaning in relation to a place.

• Derrida

The agent is the Logos, a philosophical idea and abstraction of the bodily and personal son of God on the one hand, andon the other the dynamic power of thoughts and words … The Logos was in the beginning, and God was the Logos, long before the Incarnation.

• Jung

as the flame went up toward the sky from the altar, the angel of Adonai went up in the flame from the altar. 

• Judges

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected!

• Dogen

“Here is my servant whom I have chosen,
    the one I love, in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him,
    and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
¹⁹ He will not quarrel or cry out;
    no one will hear his voice in the streets.
²⁰ A bruised reed he will not break,
    and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out,
till he has brought justice through to victory.
²¹     In his name the nations will put their hope.”

• Isaiah 42:1-4

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

• Mark 10:14

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it’s going. That’s how it is with everyone who has been born from the Spirit.

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.

• John 3:8

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#63)

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

• Montessori

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

We must free childhood from repression that weighs upon it

• Montessori

“I have a message from God for you.”

• Judges

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.

• Mathew

 In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full , all creatures flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed.

• Tao Te Ching

Yes, I will gladly go with you

• Judges

even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

• Mathew

It is something that corresponds, an inner experience, an assimilation of Christ into the psychic matrix, a new realization of
the divine Son, no longer in theriomorphic form, but expressed
in a conceptual or “philosophic” symbol.

• Jung

“Please give me a little water to drink — I’m thirsty.” 

• Judges

“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.”

• Mathew

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.

• Derrida

I will sing to Adonai!

• Judges

 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

• Mathew

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a breeze, a moment’s glance — it is little that makes the best happiness. Still! … What happened to me? Listen! Did time perhaps fly away? Do I not fall? Did I not fall — listen! — into the well of eternity?

• Nietzsche

The mountains melted at the presence of Adonai,

• Judges

Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.

• Mathew

making a resolution is equivalent to casting aside hesitation.

eliminate hesitation.

Breakthrough (Resoluteness).

–
When water on the ground has risen up to Heaven and accumulated as a lake of cloud in the sky, surely there will be a cloudburst.

• I Ching

their mighty steeds galloping at full speed.

• Judges

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.

• Mathew

There are two ways of achieving surrender. One is looking into the source of the ‘I’ and merging into that source. The other is feeling ‘I am helpless myself, God alone is all powerful and except throwing myself completely on Him, there is no other means of safety for me’, and thus gradually developing the conviction that God alone. exists and the ego does not count. Both methods lead to the same goal. Complete surrender is another name for jnana or liberation.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

blessed more than any woman in the tent.

• Judges

The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy^[b] are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.

• Mathew

The fish symbol
is thus the bridge between the historical Christ and the psychic
nature of man, where the archetype of the Redeemer dwells.

• Jung

He asked for water, and she gave him milk;

• Judges

Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.

• Mathew

Since the destructive force of Deconstruction is always already contained within the very architecture of the work, all one would finally have to do to be able to deconstruct, given this always already, is to do memory work. Yet since I want neither to accept nor to reject a conclusion formulated in precisely these terms, let us leave this question suspended for the moment.”

• Derrida

may those who love him be like the sun

• Judges

What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

• Mathew

The Master gives himself up
to whatever the moment brings.

• Tao Te Ching

Then the land had rest for forty years.

• Judges

I will send my messenger ahead of you,
    who will prepare your way before you.

• Mathew

Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy.

• Tehillim/Psalm 98:8

the heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement.

• Tao Te Ching

²¹ He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with shouts of joy.

• Job 8:21

 The Word became a human being and lived with us, and we saw his Sh’khinah, the Sh’khinah of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.

• John 1:14

for you will be in league with the stones in the field,
and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

• Job 5:23

And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Then He said to him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you all, you shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man!

I assure you that you will see heaven open and God’s angels going up to heaven and down to earth on the Human One.”

You will even see heaven open and the angels of God coming back and forth to me, the Messiah.”

I tell you the truth: before our journey is complete, you will see the heavens standing open while heavenly messengers ascend and descend, swirling around the Son of Man.

• John 1:51

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#62)

Finding a place in the world … is ultimately an act of imagination. The home, workplace, and social (friendship) circles have different values and beliefs, which complicates the individual’s ability to subsist within one culture. Therefore, people should be encouraged to identify and understand their perceptions of culture and go beyond the cultural ways to innovate … to create … Each must be his own artist, his own scientist, his own historian, his own navigator.

• Jerome Bruner

going the way of all the earth.

• Joshua

 Freely you have received; freely give.

• Mathew

we know
from experience that it had long been there and is older than
the ego, and that it is actually the secret spiritus rector of our
fate.

• Jung

“We are witnesses.”

• Joshua

 As you enter the home, give it your greeting.

• Mathew

The new position of the advancing man has
all the powers of the old~ yet has them all new. It carries in its
bosom all the energies of the past, yet is itself an exhalation of the
morning.

• Emerson

they buried him on the hill

• Joshua

 If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you.

• Mathew

Since it stands for the
essence of individuation, and individuation is impossible without a relationship to one’s environment, it is found among those
of like mind with whom individual relations can be established.

• Jung

give me sources of water.

• Judges

 be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

• Mathew

The extreme austerity of an almost empty mind
Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate
Something between breaths, if only for the sake
Of others and their desire to understand you 

• John Ashbery

they buried him near the boundary of his property

• Judges

 At that time you will be given what to say,

• Mathew

acts like a circumambient atmosphere towhich no definite limits can be set, either in space or in time.(Hence the synchronistic phenomena so often associated with activated archetypes.)

• Jung

the land had rest for forty years

• Judges

 it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

• Mathew

He moves the mountains, although they don’t know it

• Job 9:5

“I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him.”

• John 1:32

it was clear that the “centre,” or what we
would call the self, does not lie in the ego but is outside it, “in
us” yet not “in our mind,” being located rather in that which we
unconsciously are, the “quid” which we still have to recognize.

• Jung

He alone spreads out the sky
and walks on the waves in the sea

• Job 9:8

… water welling up to eternal life.

• John 4:14

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#61)

The silver cross slipped from his neck and fell to the floor, and the child in the armchair picked it up, dangled it on its white ribbon, looking at it from all sides, and then said to his companion: “Do you see what you have dropped?”

• Montessori

the moment he stretched out his hand,

• Joshua

The girl is not dead but asleep.

• Mathew

Causes and
ends thus transcend consciousness to a degree that ought not to
be underestimated, and this implies that their nature and action
are unalterable and irreversible so long as they have not become
objects of consciousness.

• Jung

 there was the smoke from the city, rising to the sky

• Joshua

According to your faith let it be done to you

• Mathew

Character makes an overpowering present: a cheerful, determined hour, which fortifies all the company by making them see that much is possible and excellent that was not thought of.

• Emerson

Roll big stones to the mouth of the cave

• Joshua

 the man who had been mute spoke

• Mathew

Whether it wishes to be an agent of healing, training, or sounding the depths,
psychoanalysis has but one medium: the patient’s speech. The obviousness of
this fact is no excuse for ignoring it. Now all speech calls for a response.

• Lacan

the city in the middle of the valley,

• Joshua

 they were harassed and helpless

• Mathew

This description fits the paradoxical situation of the self, as its symbolism shows. It is the smallest of the small, easily over- looked and pushed aside. Indeed, it is in need of help and must
be perceived, protected, and as it were built up by the conscious
mind, just as if it did not exist at all and were called into being
only through man’s care and devotion.

• Jung

give me sources of water

• Joshua

The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.

• Mathew

 For all true thought remains open to more than one interpretation and this by reason of its nature.

• Heidegger

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”

8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”

And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

• Isaiah 6:6-8

²⁵ He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.

• John 2:25

… water welling up to eternal life.

• John 4:14

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#60)

It is a question of co-operation with a command of nature,
with one of her laws which decrees that development
should take place by means of experiences upon the
environment. With his first step the child enters a higher
level of experiences.

• Montessori

every place you will step on with the sole of your foot

• Joshua

Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him.

• Mathew

The difference between talents and character is adroitness to
keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make
a new road to new and better goals.

• Emerson

don’t be afraid or downhearted, because Adonai your God is with you wherever you go.

• Joshua

Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat.

• Mathew

The ascertaining of “truth” and “untruth, ” the ascertaining of facts in
general, is fundamentally different from creative positing, from
forming, shaping, overcoming, willing, such as is of the essence of
philosophy. 

• Nietzsche

The men left around the time when they shut the gate, when it was dark.

• Joshua

And when they saw him, they pleaded with him to leave their region.

• Mathew

One-eyed person is still able to see,
Lame person is still able to walk.
–
Review the past,
Summarize the journey.
Everything is fulfilled.
Supreme good fortune.

• I Ching

we will treat you kindly and in good faith.

• Joshua

they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man.

• Mathew

The very urge to achieve is also an expression of the total universe. It merely shows that the energy potential has risen at a particular point. 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

 the river overflowed its banks as it had before.

• Joshua

 go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’^[a]

• Mathew

 But there is another possibility which interests me more at this point: it overflows the question itself, reinscribes it in the experience of an “affirmation”, of a “yes” or of an “en-gage” 

• Derrida

On hearing the sound of the shofar, all the people are to shout as loudly as they can

• Joshua

they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

• Mathew

Shock brings success. Shock comes – oh, oh! Laughing words – ha, ha! The shock terrifies for a hundred miles, And he does not let fall the sacrificial spoon and chalice.

• I Ching

 the blowing on the shofars was incessant.

• Joshua

 “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed at that moment.

• Mathew

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. 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

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

2022 (#59)

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

The first problem of education is to furnish the child
with an environment which will permit him to develop
the functions that nature has given to him. This is not
an indifferent question.

• Montessori

May my teaching fall like rain.

• Deuteronomy

The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall

• Mathew

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

• Derrida

spreads out her wings, takes them
and carries them as she flies.

• Deuteronomy

he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

• Mathew

The tangle which is entirely below the level of consciousness can be set right by being with yourself, the ‘I am’, by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest with the intention to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

suck honey from the rocks

• Deuteronomy

I am willing,

• Mathew

I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded
knowledge~ as ,vacant and vain. and now for the first time seem I to
know any thing rightly. The simplest words-we do not know
what they mean except when we love and aspire.

• Emerson

I put to death, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;

• Deuteronomy

“Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.”

• Mathew

you encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind. Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

with the best from the sky, for the dew,
and for what comes from the deep beneath,

• Deuteronomy

“Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

• Mathew

Like mountains veiled by water and sky

• John Ashbery

in a land of grain and new wine,
where the skies drip with dew.

• Deuteronomy

“Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

• Mathew

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. 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

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

2022 (#58)

learners help each other learn, each according to her abilities. And this, of course, need not exclude the presence of somebody serving in the role of teacher. It simply implies that the teacher does not play that role as a monopoly, that learners ‘scaffold’ for each other as well. The antithesis is the ‘transmission’ model …

• Jerome Bruner

We’ll discover that our presence, which has to be visible
and warm, makes it possible for us to try to get inside
the child and what that child is doing. And this may
seem to be passive, but it is really a very strong
activity on our part.

• Malaguzzi

Things which are hidden belong to Adonai our God.

• Deuteronomy

“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs.

• Mathew

Now I shall tell you of the End of wisdom. When a man knows this he goes beyond death … beginningless supreme: beyond what is and what is not.

• Bhagavad Gita

Then Adonai your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your children, so that you will love Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live.

• Deteronomy

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

• Mathew

Here holy thoughts a light have shed
From many a radiant face,
And prayers of humble virtue made
The perfume of the place.

• Emerson

 the word is very close to you — in your mouth, even in your heart; therefore, you can do it!

• Deteronomy

everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

• Mathew

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.

• Nietzsche

loving Adonai your God, paying attention to what he says and clinging to him — for that is the purpose of your life!

• Deteronomy

 in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

• Mathew

This was as far as she would go —

A tavern with plants.

Dynamite out over the horizon

And a sequel, and a racket. Dolphins repelling

The sand. Squads of bulldozers

Wrecked the site, and she died laughing

• John Ashbery

“The time is coming for you to die. 

• Deteronomy

by their fruit you will recognize them.

• Mathew

inner and outer are in accord; confidence in the Spirit; sincere, truthful; proper to take action

• I Ching

Adonai appeared in the tent in a column of cloud; the column of cloud stood above the entrance to the tent. 

• Deuteronomy

 everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

• Mathew

²⁴ God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

• John 4:24

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. 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

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