2022 (#92)

To find deeper meaning, one must become able to transcend the narrow confines of a self-centered existence and believe that one will make a significant contribution to life—if not right now, then at some future time.  This feeling is necessary if a person is to be satisfied with himself and with what he is doing.  In order not to be at the mercy of the vagaries of life, one must develop one’s inner resources, so that one’s emotions, imagination, and intellect mutually support and enrich one another.  Our positive feelings give us the strength to develop our rationality; only hope for the future can sustain us in the adversities we unavoidably encounter.

• Bethelheim

The supportive atmosphere of the school in principle is open and democratic, inviting exchange of ideas and suppressing distance between people; thus, in all circumstances, the school maintains its effectiveness and a welcoming feelng to all concerned.

• Malaguzzi

“whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”

• Ruth

These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.

• Revelation

Without form, without figure, without resemblance am I;
Vitality of all senses, in everything I am;
Neither attached, nor released am I —

• Shankara

“Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.”

• Ruth

Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says

• Revelation

so are the diseases of living cured by a good dose of intelligent detachment. (viveka-vairagya).

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

She ate all she wanted and had some left over.

• Ruth

 I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

• Revelation

Postmaturation (Nachreife ) of a living organism or a seed: this is not simply a metaphor, either, for the reasons already indicated. In its very essence, the history of this language is determined as “growth:’ “holy growth of languages.”

• Derrida

 “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.”

• Ruth

These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.

• Revelation
• “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” 

• Ruth

I will give some of the hidden manna.

• Revelation

…it appears clearly that all other substances depend upon God just as
our thoughts emanate from our own substances; that God is all in all
and that he is intimately united to all created things…

• Leibnitz

 To the east they occupied the land up to the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River

• 1 Chronicles

The great Tao flows everywhere.
All things are born from it
It nourishes infinite worlds,
yet it doesn’t hold on to them

• Tao Te Ching

 I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.

• Revelation

 the gatekeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting

• 1 Chronicles

 I will also give that one the morning star.

• Revelation

If words and concepts receive meaning only in sequences of differences, one can Justify one’s language, and one’s choice of terms, only within a topic [an orientation in space] and an historical strategy. The justification can therefore never be absolute and definitive. It corresponds to a condition of forces and translates an historical calculation.

• Derrida

 special flour and wine, and the olive oil, incense and spices.

• 1 Chronicles

Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die

• Revelation

Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh

• 1 Chronicles

Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the ideas of God, and
as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God’s
choice, which determines him to one rather than another.

• Leibniz

They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.

• Revelation

stonemasons and carpenters

• 1 Chronicles

See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. 

• Revelation

There is no need of a way out! Don’t you see that a way out is also a part of the dream? All you have to do is to see the dream as dream.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.

• 1 Chronicles

At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.

• Revelation

this faith without dogma which makes its way
through the risks of absolute night, cannot be contained in any traditional opposition,
for example that between reason and mysticism.

• Derrida

a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins

• 1 Chronicles

 And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby.

• Revelation

 blow the trumpets

• 1 Chronicles

A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne.

• Revelation

Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad

• 1 Chronicles

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

• Mathew 6:9-10

2022 (#91)

So today the child begins to be visualized as it should
be, as the connection, the joining link between different
phases of history and different levels of civilization.

• Montessori

Our goal ia to make an amiable school – that is, a school that is active, inventive, liveable, documentable and communicative. Our goal is to make a school that is a place of research, learning, revisitng, reconsideration, and reflecion. We strive to make an amiable school where children, teachers and families feel a sense of well being.

• Malaguzzi

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

the carpenters, the builders and the masons.

• 2 Kings

among the lampstands was someone like a son of man,^[d] dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.

• Revelation

But your adventures are like safe houses,
your knowing where to stop an adventure
of another order, like seizing the weather.

• John Ashbery

“Because your heart was responsive”

• 2 Kings

Language speaks as the peal of stillness by carrying out, the bearing and enduring, of world and things in their presence… The peal of stillness is not anything human. But on the contrary, the human is indeed in its nature to speech… 

• Heidegger

The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.

• Revelation

One of us stays behind.
One of us advances on the bridge
as on a carpet. Life — it’s marvelous —
follows and falls behind

• John Ashbery

So they took her answer back to the king.

• 2 Kings

What has thus taken place, human being, has been brought into its own by language, the peal of stillness. Such an appropriating takes place in that the very nature, the presencing, of language needs and uses the speaking of the mortals in order to sound as the peal of stillness for the hearing of mortals.

• Heidegger

 His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.

• Revelation

Falling forward one minute, lying down the next

Among the loose grasses and soft, white, nameless flowers.

People have been making a garment out of it

• John Ashbery

 they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

• 2 Kings

 the individual ‘I’ falls down abashed as soon as one reaches the Heart and immediately Reality manifests itself spontaneously as ‘I-I’. Although it reveals itself as ‘I’, it is not the ego but Perfect Being, God.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

 In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword.

• Revelation

dedicated to the sun

• 2 Kings

 His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

• Revelation

Stitching the white of lilacs together with lightning

• John Ashbery

the tombs that were there on the hillside

• 2 Kings

 This responding is hearing. It hears because it listens to the command of stillness.

• Heidegger

“I hold the keys of death and Hades.”

• Revelation

 “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.”

• Kings

“eat from the tree of life”

• Revelation

 trusts his inner vision.

He allows things to come and go.

His heart is open as the sky.

• Tao Te Ching

buried him in his own tomb

• Kings

 which is in the paradise of God

• Revelation

Let man then learn revelation of all nature and all thought to his heart; this; namely; that the highest dwells with him; that the sources of nature are in his own mind, if the sentiment of duty is there.

• Emerson

The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits^[f] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around.

• 2 Kings

you are rich! 

• Revelation

 providing food for them,

• Ruth

with the sword of my mouth.

• Revelation

This revitalization, as we have already seen, must first of all pass by way of the tongue, that is, by way of the exercise of the tongue or language, the treatment of its body, the mouth and the ear …

• Derrida

“Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May Adonai show you kindness”

• Ruth

 I will give some of the hidden manna.

• Revelation

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

• Mathew