2022 (#90)

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

• Malaguzzi

Rather than a longing for predictability and regularity, Malaguzzi valued uncertainty, desired wonder and amazement, loved to marvel at the totally unexpected.

• Peter Moss

It is necessary to give an immediate response to a child. Children need to know that we are their friends, that they can depend on us for the things they desire, that we can support them in the things that they have, but also in the things that they dream about, that they desire.

• Malaguzzi

the aqueduct of the Upper Pool

• 2 Kings

 He made it known by sending his angel

• Revelation

two thousand horses

• 2 Kings

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

• Heidegger

³ Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.

• Revelation

each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern

• 2 Kings

a theory of action, according to which the psychic life is by no
means a rational life but a chaos of darkness streaked with flashes
of light, something strange and above all discontinuous, which
has only appeared continuous and rational because after the
event it is described in a language which puts order and clarity
into everything.

• Alfred Binet

Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits^[a] before his throne

• Revelation

With my many chariots
I have ascended the heights of the mountains

• 2 Kings

Self-knowledge, then, is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth.

• Karen Horney

the firstborn from the dead

• Revelation

I have dug wells in foreign lands
    and drunk the water there.

• 2 Kings

He is beyond all, and yet he supports all. He is beyond the world of matter, and yet he has joy in this world.

• Bhagavad Gita

Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits^[a] before his throne,

• Revelation

 like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass sprouting on the roof,

• 2 Kings

In an intact brain, the amygdala used the same pathway to read the emotional aspect of anything we percieve — elation in someone’s tone of voice, a hint of anger around the eyes, a posture of glum defeat — and then processes that information, subliminally beneath the reach of consciousness.

• Daniel Goleman

“Look, he is coming with the clouds,”

• Revelation

 plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

• 2 Kings

He who is beyond time – is the un-nameable. A glowing ember moved round and round quickly enough appears as a glowing circle. When the movement ceases, the ember remains.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” 

• Revelation

the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine olive oil

• 2 Kings

For the soul is true to itself. and ,
the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the
present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.

• Emerson

 I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet

• Revelation

he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city

• 2 Kings

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: God himself is all of these.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

Write on a scroll what you see

• Revelation

buried in his palace garden

• 2 Kings

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

¹² I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands

• Revelation

¹⁰ Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

• Mathew 6:10

2022 (#89)

Children’s interactions provide a fruitful ground for symbolic construction, which derives in large part from cognitive abilities and the forms in which they are manifested. Interactions increase the capacity on the part of children in the ability to step back from reality and describe it anew, to demonstrate the emerging process of abstraction and recombination of ideas.

• Malaguzzi

 take this flask of olive oil with you 

• Kings

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

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

• Chandogya Upanishad

They realized he had seen a vision in the temple

• Luke

The looping operation is designed to regain what is lost; by making the repressed return, it clears blockages, thus recovering what the subject had been striving for when losing itself to the otherness of life. What is glimpsed of the hidden archê is to be fed forward into a surmised telos, from which a feedback will be received.

• Paul Ricouer

 take the flask and pour the oil on his head

• Kings

When his time of service was completed, he returned home.

• Luke

“I have a message for you”

• 2 Kings

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

• Bhagavad Gita

“Adonai has done this for me,”

• 2 Kings

they blew the trumpet

• 2 Kings

“Greetings, you who are highly favored! Adonai is with you.”

• Luke

Let us accompany this movement of love, the gesture of this loving one
(liebend) that is at work in the translation. It does not reproduce, does
not restitute, does not represent; essentially, it does not render the meaning of the original except at that point of contact or caress, the infinitely small of meaning.

• Derrida

treasuries of the royal palace

• 2 Kings

Review the past,

Summarize the journey.

Everything is fulfilled.

Supreme good fortune.

• I Ching

You have found favor with God.

• Luke

poured out his drink offering

• 2 Kings

He will be great

• Luke

To see the Heart it is enough that the mind is turned towards it. Then mind loses itself and Heart shines forth.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

He removed the Sea from the bronze bulls that supported it and set it on a stone base.

• 2 Kings

His kingdom will never end

• Luke

Return is the being
of becoming itself, the being which is affirmed in becoming. The
eternal return as law of becoming, as justice and as being.

• Deleuze

They set up sacred stones

• 2 Kings

“How will this be?”

• Luke

under every spreading tree

• 2 Kings

“The Holy Spirit will come on you”

• Luke

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

 At every high place they burned incense

• 2 Kings

The dreams are not equal, but the dreamer is one. I am the insect. I am the poet — in dream. But in reality I am neither. I am beyond all dreams. I am the light in which all dreams appear and disappear. I am both inside and outside the dream. 

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The power of the Most High will overshadow you.”

• Luke

 Adonai did not stop following him

• 2 Kings

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

• Emerson

¹⁰ Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

• Mathew 6:10

2022 (#88)

“Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you?”

• 2 Kings

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

“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

• Mathew

olive groves and vineyards

• 2 Kings

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger
circles, and that without end.

• Emerson

I am with you always

• Mathew

 “Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.”

• 2 Kings

The analyst never handles forces directly but always indirectly in the play of meaning,double meaning, and substituted, displaced, or transposed meanings. An economy of desire, yes – but across a semantics of desire. A dynamics, yes – but across a hermaneutics

• Paul Ricoeur

Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled^[a] among us

• Luke
• They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees.

• 2 Kings

As rivers flowing into the ocean find their final peace and their name and form disappear even so the wise become free from name and form and enter into the radiance of the Supreme Spirit who is greater than all greatness. In truth who knows God becomes God.

• Mundaka Upanishad

I too decided to write an orderly account for you

• Luke

This religious code is essential here. The sacred text marks the limit, the
pure even if inaccessible model of pure translatability, the ideal starting
from which one could think, evaluate, measure the essential, that is to say, poetic, translation. Translation, as holy growth of languages, announces the messianic end, surely, but the sign of that end and of that growth is “present” (gegenwartig) only in the “knowledge of that distance,” 

• Derrida

 ⁵ As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. 

• 2 Kings

The rising world of waters dark and deep
Won from the void and formless infinite

• Milton

they were both very old

• Luke

made the iron float

• 2 Kings

 by his very nature and of his own accord, strives toward self-realization, and that his set of values evolves from such striving.

• Karen Horney

 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

• Luke

 to inhere in one’s own Being, where the ‘I’, or ego, is dead, is the perfect State.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Lift it out,”

• 2 Kings

when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.

• Luke

“I will set up my camp in such and such a place.”

• Kings

he needs an atmosphere of warmth to give him both a feeling of inner security and the inner freedom enabling him to have his own feelings and thoughts and to express himself. He needs the good will of others, not only to help him in his many needs but to guide and encourage him to become a mature and fulfilled individual. He also needs healthy friction with the wishes and wills of others. If he can thus grow with others, in love and in friction, he will also grow in accordance with his real self.

• Karen Horney

Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

• Luke

the very words you speak in your bedroom.

• 2 Kings

But he who will teach this secret doctrine to those who have love for me, and who himself has supreme love, he in truth shall come unto me.

• Bhagavad Gita

 “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard.”

• Luke

 “Open his eyes, Adonai, so that he may see.”

• 2 Kings

He will be a joy and delight to you

• Luke

 chariots of fire all around Elisha

• 2 Kings

It lays down the law it speaks about, and from abyss to
abyss it deconstructs the tower, and every turn, twists and turns of every
sort, in a rhythm.

• Derrida

he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born

• Luke

To understand is not to project oneself into the text but to expose oneself to it; it is toreceive a self enlarged by the appropriation of the proposed worlds that interpretation unfolds. […] The metamorphosis of the world in play is also the playful metamorphosis of the ego.

• Paul Ricouer

“Adonai, open the eyes of these men so they can see.” 

• 2 Kings

to turn the hearts of the parents to their children

• Luke

²² “Do not kill them,” 

• 2 Kings

The Master gives himself up

 to whatever the moment brings.

• Tao Te Ching

I stand in the presence of God

• Luke

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

he prepared a great feast for them

• 2 Kings

I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news

• Luke

2022 (#87)

 the riches that lie buried inside the psychic
world of the child and indeed, for thousands of years, from the very beginning of
humanity itself, man has continued repressing these energies and grinding them
into the dust. It is only today that a few have begun to suspect their existence.
Humanity has begun to realise the importance of these riches which have never
been exploited something more precious than gold ; the very soul of man.

• Montessori

“Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”

• 2 Kings

The mind clogs you up with images and ideas, which leave scars in memory. You take remembering to be knowledge. True knowledge is ever fresh, new, unexpected. It wells up from within. When you know what you are, you also are what you know. Between knowing and being there is no gap.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

⁵ The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

• Mathew

it also tells of the need for figuration, for myth, for tropes, for twists and turns, for translation inadequate to supply that which multiplicity denies us. In this sense, it would be the myth of the origin of myth, the metaphor of metaphor, the narrative of narrative, the translation of translation.

• Derrida

³⁹ One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold.

• 2 Kings

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

⁶ He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.

• Mathew

One must speak, therefore, to the blind. That is the act of this confession. But in a confession, the one who announces, cautions, warns, and even accuses does not exclude himself from the whole [ensemble] of his addressees.

• Derrida

 ‘They will eat and have some left over.’” 

• 2 Kings

Come and see the place where he lay.

• Mathew

 “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”

• 2 Kings

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

• Derrida

 ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’

• Mathew

 his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy.

• 2 Kings

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

⁸ So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy,

• 2 Kings

¹⁹ “Go in peace,” Elisha said.

• 2 Kings

and this openness opens the unity, renders it possible, and forbids it totality. Its openness allows receiving and giving.

• Derrida

⁹ Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.

• Mathew

¹⁰ Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

• Mathew 6:10

2022 (#86)

Each one of us needs to be able to play with the
things that are coming out of the world of children.

• Malaguzzi

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always
been transmitted, but wars have never ceased. And if education were to be
conceived along the old lines of transmitting knowledge, the problem would
remain without solution for ever. Indeed, there would be no hope for the world. It
is not transmission of knowledge that is required, the consideration of the human
personality alone can lead us to salvation. And we hold in front of our eyes a
psychic entity, a social personality, immense in multitude of individuals, a world
power that must be taken into consideration. If salvation and help are to come, it is
through the child ; for the child is the constructor of man.

• Montessori

²⁴ She saddled the donkey

• 2 Kings

After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week

• Mathew

realise that you are not the master of what happens, you cannot control the future. Human relationship cannot be planned, it is too rich and varied. Just be understanding and compassionate, free of all self seeking.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Everything is all right,” 

• 2 Kings

Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

• Mathew

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

• Tao Te Ching

²⁷ When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. 

• 2 Kings

hitting just the right gesture that would pierce the barriers of language and culture … well-calibrated forcefulness combined with adeptness at reading people …

• Daniel Goleman

² There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.

• Mathew

“I will not leave you.”

• 2 Kings

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

• Derrida

³ His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

• Mathew

He got up and followed her.

• Kings

⁴ The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

• Mathew

bringing to bear great micrological refinement; they call for constant attention to the paradoxes of archivation, to what psychoanalysis (which would not be just the theme of the object of this history but its interpretation) can tell us about these paradoxes of archivation, about its blanks, the efficacy of its details or its nonappearance, its capitalizing reserve or — but here we perhaps step beyond psychoanalysis — about the radical destruction of the archive, in ashes …

• Derrida

The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

• 2 Kings

“Now I have told you.”

• Mathew

Just one thing have I asked of Adonai;
only this will I seek:
to live in the house of Adonai
all the days of my life,
to see the beauty of Adonai
and visit in his temple.

• Tehillim/Psalms 27:4

¹⁰ Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

• Mathew 6:10

2022 (#85)

Malaguzzi aspires to a transition from more experimental science to school experimentation, a process giving pedagogy new life but struggling to make the transition into the reality of school. There can be no doubt of his multifaceted personality, persistently striving to make ideas and desires into reality.

• Peter Moss

Many
things that happen cannot be known ahead of time.
Something will start to grow inside the child and
suddenly what is happening in the school will move
in that direction. Sometimes what happens starts
inside the adults. School can never be always
predictable. We need to be open to what takes place
and able to change our plans and go with what
might grow at that very moment both inside the
child and inside ourselves.

• Malaguzzi

Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the water with it.

• 2 Kings

⁵¹ At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split ⁵² and the tombs broke open.

• Mathew

When you realize that the distinction between inner and outer is in the mind only, you are no longer afraid.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

• 2 Kings

The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.

• Mathew

 Man here is not first of all man, and then also occasionally someone who points. No: drawn into what withdraws, drawing toward it and thus pointing into the withdrawal, man first is man. His essential nature lies in being such a pointer. Something which in itself, by its essential nature, is pointing, we call a sign. As he draws toward what withdraws, man is a sign.

• Heidegger

“Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,”

• 2 Kings

 “Surely he was the Son of God!”

• Mathew

One sees him in a vision of wonder, and another gives us words of his wonder.

• Bhagavad Gita

 ‘I have healed this water. ‘

• 2 Kings

ask the tender

cloud,

And it shall tell thee why it glitters in the morning sky,

And why it scatters its bright beauty thro’ the humid air.

Descend, O little Cloud, & hover before the eyes 

• William Blake

Many women were there, watching from a distance. 

• Mathew

Each situation demands the creation
of a suitable mode of exposition, the invention of a law of the singular event, take into account the
recipient, imagined or desired.

• Derrida

a small jar of olive oil.

• 2 Kings

 Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, ⁶⁰ and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock.  He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. 

• Mathew

¹⁰“Let’s make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.”

• 2 Kings

and at the same time it demands the belief that this writing will determine the reader, who will learn to read (or to “live”) this writing, which he is not used to finding elsewhere.

• Derrida

Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.

• Mathew

she stood in the doorway. 

• 2 Kings

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

• Mathew

2022 (#84)

Either pedagogy – like all the human sciences – is remade,
reconstructed and updated based on the new conditions of the
times, or it loses its nature, its function, its proper capacity to
correspond to the times it lives in, and above all to foresee,
anticipate and prepare the days of tomorrow.

• Malaguzzi

Malaguzzi appreciated and took from psychology the methods of observation. These, he believed, were capable of lifting from anonymity children whose identity had been devalued as incomplete and lacking because viewed and evaluated with an adult yardstick; and of discovering and presenting the dynamic processes of their
maturation. But always taking a critical attitude to the core concept of developmental stages.

• Peter Moss

⁷ The angel came again, a second time, touched him and said, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.” 

• 1 Kings

⁶⁴ “You have said so,”

• Mathew

 This is not a weakness; the best translation resembles this royal cape.

• Derrida

So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. ⁹ There he went into a cave and spent the night.

• Kings

coming on the clouds of heaven.

• Mathew

 “Go outside, and stand on the mountain before Adonai”; and right then and there, Adonai went past.

• 1 Kings

⁷¹ Then he went out to the gateway

• Mathew

That the longest way is the most efficient way,

The one that looped among islands, and

You always seemed to be traveling in a circle.

• John Ashbery

After the fire came a gentle whisper.

• 1 Kings

Immediately a rooster crowed.

• Mathew

He pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.

• 1 Kings

Then he went away and hanged himself.

• Mathew

The teacher tells the watcher you are not this; there is nothing yours in this, except the point of ‘I am’, which is the bridge between the watcher and his dream. ‘I am this’, ‘I am that’ is a dream

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. “

• 1 Kings

“You have said so,” 

• Mathew

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

• Mathew

2022 (#83)

The interaction of children in small groups provides opportunities for negotiation and more frequent, dynamic, communications with other children … Children’s self-learning and co-learning (construction of knowledge by self and co-construction of knowledge with others), supported by interactive experiences constructed with the help of adults, determine the selection and organization of processes and strategies that are part of and coherent with the over all goals of early childhood education.

• Malaguzzi

The adult and the child must come together ; the adult must be
humble and learn from the child to be great. It is curious
that among all the miracles which humanity has per-
formed, there is only one miracle that he has not taken
into consideration : the miracle that God has sent from
the beginning : the Child.

• Montessori

He himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness.

• 1 Kings

You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 “But how then can Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way?”

• Mathew

– He believes that he cannot escape from his good. The things that are really for thee gravitate for thee. 

• Emerson

He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die.

• 1 Kings

“But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.”

• Mathew

He lay down under the bush and fell asleep.

• 1 Kings

Then all the disciples deserted him and fled.

• Mathew

All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” 

• 1 Kings

An interval must separate the present from what it is not in order for the present to be itself, but this interval that constitutes it as present must, by the same token, divide the present in and of itself, thereby also dividing, along with the present, everything that is thought on the basis of the present, that is, in our metaphysical language, every being, and singularly substance or the subject. In constituting itself, in dividing itself dynamically, this interval is what might be called spacing, the becoming-space of time or the becoming-time of space (temporization).

• Derrida

Peter followed him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest.

• Mathew

⁶ He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. 

• 1 Kings

He entered and sat down with the guards to see the outcome.

• Mathew

He ate and drank and then lay down again.

• 1 Kings

 And this because the heart in thee is the heart in all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men as water of the globe is all one sea and, truly seen, its tide is one.

• Emerson

“This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

• Mathew

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

• Mathew

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The treasure then is to be found not merely near
those who study poetry and religion, but within every
human being. This miracle is sent to all ; the represen-
tative of this tremendous force is to be found everywhere.
Man makes a desert of strife and God continues to send
this rain. So it is easy to understand that all the
creations of adults, great achievements as they are,
without love lead nowhere, to nothing. But if this love
present in the child is taken among us, if its values and
potentialities are realized and developed, our achieve-
ments, already great, will be tremendous.

• Montessori

³¹ Elijah took twelve stones

• 1 Kings

Spare no effort to devote yourself to this task, follow the subsequent transformations of the spontaneous fantasy attentively and carefully.

• Jung

“Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

• Mathew

Ultimately nothing is mine or yours — everything is ours. Just be one with yourself and you will be one with all, at home in the entire universe.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Fill four large jars with water”

• 1 Kings

“may your will be done.”

• Mathew

It stirs and it stirs not; it is far, and likewise near. It is inside of all this, and it is outside of all this.

• Isaa Upanishad

 licked up the water in the trench

• 1 Kings

He left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

• Mathew

In the immensity of consciousness a light appears, a tiny point that moves rapidly and traces shapes, thoughts and feelings, concepts and ideas, like a pen writing on paper. And the ink that leaves a trace is memory. You are that tiny point and by your movement the world is ever re-created. Stop moving and there will be no world. Look within and you will find that the point of light is the reflection of the immensity of light in the body as the sense ‘I am’. There is only light.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”

• 1 Kings

“Do what you came for, friend.”

• Mathew

Nothing but the many-faceted multiplicity of a lustre which itself is nothing beyond its own fragmented light. Nothing but the idea which is nothing.

• Derrida

“A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”

• 1 Kings

“All who draw the sword will die by the sword. “

• Mathew

Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible. Language cannot paint it with his colors. It is too subtile. It is undefinable, unmeasurable, but we know that it pervades and contains us. We know that all spiritual being is in man.

• Emerson

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

• Mathew 6:19-21

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

• Mathew

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• Malaguzzi

‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’”

• 1 Kings

“Take and eat; this is my body.”

• Mathew

For if “I” or “he” continued to tell what he has told, he would end up endlessly returning to this point and once more beginning to begin, that is to say, to begin with an end that precedes the beginning.

• Derrida

“I will send rain on the land.”

• 1 King

²⁷ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.

• Mathew

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

• Mundaka Upanishad Book 3

Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.

• Kings

²⁸ This is my blood of the^[b] covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

• Mathew

A clearing in the forest is still there, even when it’s dark. Light presupposes clearing. There can only be brightness where something has been cleared or where something is free for the light.

• Heidegger

 “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive so we will not have to kill any of our animals.”

• 1 Kings

²⁹ “I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

• Mathew

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

• Emerson

“Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here.’”

• 1 Kings

³⁰ When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

• Mathew

The Lilly of the valley, breathing in the humble grass

• William Blake

¹² I don’t know where the Spirit of Adonai may carry you when I leave you.

• 1 Kings

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

• Mathew

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

• Mathew