2022 (#116) : Malaguzzi , Montessori , Marie-Louise von Franz , Psalms , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Tao Te Ching , Proverbs , Mark , Nietzsche

Each one of us needs to be able to play with the
things that are coming out of the world of children.
Each one of us needs to have curiosity, and we need
to be able to try something new based on the ideas
that we collect from the children as they go along.
Life has to be somewhat agitated and upset, a bit
restless, somewhat unknown. As life flows with the
thoughts of the children, we need to be open, we
need to change our ideas; we need to be comfortable
with the restless nature of life.

• Malaguzzi

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

Contrary to various other schools of psychology, Jung never let himself be pushed into “explaining” this unconscious by way of a theory or a religious teaching; for him it always remained literally that which is unknown to us, of an immeasurable depth and breadth. But the dreams which come from this unconscious are evidence of a superior intelligence. It is as if a timeless spirit spoke to us there, “as though a breath of the great world of stars and endless space” touched us, or “one who had long been dead and yet was perpetually present in timelessness until far into the future.” We are all close to this world spirit in childhood, but many of us forget about it as we grow older.

• Marie-Louise von Franz

2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice[a] goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
5 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

• Mizmor/Tehellim/Psalms 19:2-5

All will come as you go on. Take the first step first. All blessings come from within. Turn within. ‘l am’ you know. Be with it all the time you can spare, until you revert to it spontaneously. There is no simpler and easier way.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Jung was of the opinion that the unconscious, which produces dreams, does not know how to express its tendencies and its “knowledge” more clearly, not out of some kind of malice or because of some inhibition (as with Freud’s censor theory) but rather because consciousness has an obliterating effect on the unconscious. The “illuminating” element of a dream is like candlelight which fades as soon as one switches on the electric light of ego-consciousness. This is why, when examining a dream, one must close the eyes a bit, that is, one must not proceed too strictly on an intellectual level, but must allow intuition and feeling to express themselves and, not least, a little humor too, for the dream spirit of the unconscious sometimes likes to make a joke.

• Marie-Louise von Franz

The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice[b] goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world

• Mizmor/Tehellim/Psalms 7:19-1-4

a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving

• Tao Te Ching

In their hearts humans plan their course,
but the Lord establishes their steps.

• Proverbs/Mashal 15:9

Don’t be afraid; just believe.

• Mark 5:36

The truth is that every man himself is a piece of fate; when he thinks he is stirring against fate in the way described, fate is being realized here, too; the struggle is imaginary, but so is resignation to fate — all these imaginary ideas are included in fate… In you the whole future of the human world is predetermined.

• Nietzsche

2022 (#115) : Malaguzzi , Montessori , Marie-Louise von Franz , Meister Eckhart , Emerson , John Ashbery , Psalms 5:11 , Mathew 5:6-9 , Derrida

We need to know how to recognize a new presence,
how to wait for the child. This is something that is
learned, it’s not automatic. We often have to do it
against our own rush to work in our own way. 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

This is the marvellous part. In the life of man the
first period is one of the greatest psychic activity. It is
then that the accumulation of impressions is made upon
which intelligence builds itself afterwards.

• Montessori

Sometimes we experience the unconscious as though we were being actively and uncannily observed by a personified being, at other times rather as if we were observed in a nonpersonified background, in a mirror, which unintentionally simply reflects our nature. The eye itself, in which, as we know, we can also see ourselves reflected, sometimes acts rather impersonally, not like the eye of another living being. Jung says, therefore, that the eye motif or mandala motif represents a reflection of insight into ourselves.

• Marie-Louise von Franz

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don’t worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

• Meister Eckhart

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

Our basis is ego-consciousness, a field of light centered upon the focal point of the ego. From that point we look out upon an enigmatic world of obscurity and do not know how far its shadowy forms are caused by our consciousness and how far they possess a reality of their own. The tendency of the dream, writes Jung, is to effect a reversal of the relationship between ego-consciousness and the unconscious, and to represent the unconscious as the generator of the empirical personality. This reversal suggests that in the opinion of the “Other side,” our unconscious existence is the real one and our conscious world a kind of illusion, an apparent reality constructed for a specific purpose. . . . Unconscious wholeness therefore seems to me the true spiritus rector of all biological and psychic events. Here is a principle which strives for total realization—which in man’s case signifies the attainment of total consciousness.

• Marie-Luise von Franz

Long ago was the then beginning to seem like now

As now is but the setting out of a new but still

Undefined way. that now, the one once

Seen from far away, is our destiny

No matter what else may happen to us. It is

The present past of which our features,

Our opinions are made.

• John Ashbery

let all who take refuge in you be glad;
let them ever sing for joy.
Spread your protection over them,
that those who love your name may rejoice in you.

• Mizmor/Tehellim/Psalms 5:11

6 “How blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness!
for they will be filled.

7 “How blessed are those who show mercy!
for they will be shown mercy.

8 “How blessed are the pure in heart!
for they will see God.

9 “How blessed are those who make peace!
for they will be called sons of God.

• Mathew 5:6-9

The paradox must be sharpened: the more the new erupts in the revolutionary crisis, the more the period is in crisis, the more it is “out of joint,” then the more one has to convoke the old, “borrow” from it. Inheritance from the “spirits of the past” consists, as always, in borrowing. Figures of borrowing, borrowed figures, figurality as the figure of borrowing.

• Derrida

2022 (#114) : Montessori , Malaguzzi , Marie-Louise von Franz , 1 Corinthians 13:12 , Chandogya Upanishad , Aeschyslus , Psalms , John , Mark , John Ashbery , Emerson

in dealing with children of this age one handles
almost a magic wand in social life. First there is the
marvel of the transformation of the child himself, secondly
there is the touching marvel (it causes emotion) that the
child is able to do much more than one had expected,
and this rouses in the spirit of the adult a sort of
reverence for the spirit of childhood, hence it achieves a
transformation and an education of the adults.

• Montessori

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,

• Malaguzzi

The collective unconscious and its contents express themselves through dreams, and each time we succeed in understanding adream and in morally assimilating its message we “begin to see (the light)”—hence the eye motif! One sees oneself for a moment through the eyes of another, of something objective which views one from the outside, as it were…many eyes gradually growing together into one great light; this single light is the light of Nature and at the same time comes from God.

• Marie-Louise von Franz

Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known

• 1 Corinthians 13:12

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

The equation of this light or fish’s eye that exists in man’s unconscious with the eye of God, which looks at us from within and in whose light there lies at the same time the only nonsubjective source of self-knowledge, is a widespread archetypal image. It is described as a bodiless inner eye in the human being, surrounded by light, or is itself a light. Plato, and many Christian mystics as well, call it the eye of the soul. Others have called it the eye of intelligence, of the intuition of faith, of simplemindedness, etc. Only through this eye can man see himself and the nature of God, which itself is an eye. 

• Marie-Luoise von Franz

when we sleep the soul is lit up completely by many eyes; with them we can see everything that we could not see in the daytime.

• Aeschyslus

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
¹² On their banks the birds of the air build their nests;
among the branches they sing.

• Tehillim 104:11-12

A person can receive only what is given them from heaven

• John 3:27

⁴³ Let whoever is wise observe these things
and consider Adonai’s loving deeds.

• Tehillim/Psalms 107:43

 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[d] Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.

• John 6:45

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

• Tehillim/Psalms 110:7

Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.

• Mark 3:35

The bars had been removed from all the windows

There was something quiet in the way the light entered

Her troussaeau. Wine fished out of the sea — they hadn’t known

We were coming relaxed forever

• John Ashbery

We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles; Meantime in man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence ; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

• Emerson

2022 (#113) : Jerome Bruner , Marie-Louise von Franz , John Ashbery , Emerson , Psalms , John , Derrida

In human beings, with their astonishing narrative gift, one of the principal forms of peacekeeping is the human gift for presentating, dramatizing, and explicating the mitigating circumstances surrounding conflict-threatening breaches in the ordinariness of life. The object of the narrative is not to reconcile, not to legitimize, not to even excuse, but to rather explicate…To be in a viable culture is to be bound in a set of connecting stories, connecting even though the stories may not represent a consensus.

• Jerome Bruner

The Dream as an Expression of an Inner Drama : One can understand every dream as a drama in which we ourselves are everything, that is, the author, director, actors, and prompter, as well as the spectators. If one tries to understand a dream in this way, the result is a startling realization for the dreamer of what is happening in him psychically, “behind his back,” so to speak. The surprise may be experienced as painful, as joyful, or as enlightening, depending on how he accepts the dream-play in consciousness. The moment of surprise lies in what Jung called the compensatory or complementary function of the dream. This means that the dream almost never represents something already conscious, but rather brings either contents which balance a onesided attitude of consciousness (compensatory) or completes what is lacking in those contents of consciousness which are too narrow or are not considered sufficiently valuable (complementary).

• Marie-Louise von Franz

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

the only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity and, accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature , work and live.

• Emerson

Personality No. 2 is the collective unconscious, which Jung also later called the “objective psyche,” for it is experienced as not belonging to us. (In the historical past such phenomena were looked upon as “spirit powers.”) It is a “something” which is experienced by the subject ego as its opposite, like an eye, so to speak, which observes one from the depths of the soul. In his Philosophia meditativa, Gerhard Dorn, a follower of Paracelsus, has given a most illuminating description in many respects of this experience of the objective psyche and of the personality transformation resulting from this experience. In his view, the alchemical opus is based on an act of self-knowledge. This self-knowledge, however, is not what the ego thinks about itself, but something quite different. Dorn says, “But no man can truly know himself unless first he see and know by zealous meditation . . . what rather than who he is, on whom he depends, and whose he is, and to what end he was made and created, and by whom and through whom.”5 With the emphasis on “what” (instead of “who”) Dorn stresses a nonsubjective real partner which he seeks in his meditation and in his self-knowledge, and by this he means nothing other than the image of God embedded within the soul of man.

• Marie-Luise von Franz

The young lions roar after their prey
and seek their food from God.

The sun rises, they slink away
and lie down to rest in their dens;

• Tehillim 104:22

For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world…

• John 6:33

You grow grass for the cattle;
and for people you grow the plants they need
to bring forth bread from the earth,

• Tehillim 104:14

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Yeshua said to them, “My personal food is that I do the will of him who has sent me and finish His work.

• John 4:34

Eating God’s words constitutes a parallel to the Holy Sacrament—here too, a divine transubstantiation takes place. And that has left its mark on modern hermeneutics, which of course has its roots in biblical interpretation

• Derrida

2022 (#112) : Malaguzzi , Marie-Louise von Franz , Emerson , Proverbs , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Psalms , John , Deleuze

Each one of us needs to be able to play with the
things that are coming out of the world of children.
Each one of us needs to have curiosity, and we need
to be able to try something new based on the ideas
that we collect from the children as they go along.
Life has to be somewhat agitated and upset, a bit
restless, somewhat unknown. As life flows with the
thoughts of the children, we need to be open, we
need to change our ideas; we need to be comfortable
with the restless nature of life.
All of this changes the role of the teacher, a role that
becomes much more difficult and complex. It also
makes the world of the teacher more beautiful,
something to become involved in.

• Malaguzzi

It even seems as if the ego has not been produced by nature to follow its own arbitrary
impulses to an unlimited extent, but to help to
mak e real the totality — the whol e psyche. It is
the ego that serves to light up the entire system,
allowing it to becom e conscious and thus to be
realized. If, for example , I have an artistic
talent of which my ego is not conscious , nothing
will happen to it. The gift ma y as well be nonexistent. Only if my ego notices it can bring
it into reality. The inborn but hidden totality
of the psyche is not the same thing as a whole –
ness that is fully realized and lived.

• Marie-Louise von Franz

One moral we have already deduced, in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action. Another analogy we shall now trace, that every action admits of being outdone. Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

• Emerson

Fro m one point o f view this process takes
place in man (as well as in every other living
being) by itself and in the unconscious ; it is a
process by which man lives out his innate human nature . Strictly speaking, however, the
process of individuation is real only if the individual is aware of it and consequently makes a
living connection with it. We do not know
whethe r the pine tree is aware of its own
growth, whethe r it enjoys and suffers the different vicissitudes that shape it. But man certainly is able to participat e consciously in his
development. He even feels that from time to
time , by making free decisions , he can cooperate actively with it. This co-operation
belongs to the process of individuation in the
narrower sense of the word.

• Marie-Louise von Franz

Then you will understand righteousness, justice,
fairness and every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
knowledge will be enjoyable for you,
11 discretion will watch over you,
and discernment will guard you.

• Proverbs/Mashal 2:9-11

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 ego into God, the duality of ‘I’ and ‘this’ goes and the identity of the outer and the inner, the God’s Reality manifests itself.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

you seeking after God, let your heart revive.
^34 (33) For Adonai pays attention to the needy

• Tehillim 69:34

“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Yeshua said to them, “My personal food is that I do the will of him who has sent me and finish His work.

• John 4:34

Multiplicity is the inseparable manifestation, essential
transformation and constant symptom of unity. Multiplicity is the
affirmation of unity; becoming is the affirmation of being. The affirmation
of becoming is itself being, the affirmation of multiplicity is
itself one. Multiple affirmation is the way in which the one affirms
itself.

• Deleuze

2022 (#111) : Malaguzzi , Marie-Louise von Franz , Emerson , Jung , Katha Upanishad , Heidegger , Psalms , John , Meister Eckhart

We need to define the role of the adult, not as a
transmitter but as a creator of relationships —
relationships not only between people but also
between things, between thoughts, with the environment.

• Malaguzzi

T h e Self can be defined as an inne r guiding
factor that is different from the conscious personality and that can be grasped only through
the investigation o f one’ s own dreams . Thes e
show it to be the regulating cente r that brings
about a constant extension and maturing o f the
personality. But this larger, mor e nearly total
aspect o f the psyche appear s first as merely an
inborn possibility. It ma y emerg e very slightly,
or it ma y develop relatively completely during
one’ s lifetime. Ho w far it develops depends on
whethe r or not the ego is willing to listen to
the messages o f the Self.

• Mari-Louise von Franz

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere. We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms. 

• Emerson

There was a blue sky, like the sea, covered not by clouds but by flat
brown clods of earth. It looked as if the clods were breaking apart and
the blue water of the sea were becoming visible between them. But the
water was the blue sky. Suddenly there appeared from the right a
winged being sailing across the sky. I saw that it was an old man with
the horns of a bull. He held a bunch of four keys, one of which he clutched as if he were about to open a lock. He had the wings of the
kingfisher with its characteristic colors.

• Jung

When He shines, everything begins to shine. Everything in the world reflects His light.’

• Katha Upanishad Book 2

The world’s darkening never reaches to the light of Being.

• Heidegger

8 In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, Lord,
make me dwell in safety.

• Mizmor/Tehillim/Psalms

Just as the living God sent me and I live because of God, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

• John 6:57

The world was made for the soul, to exercise and support the eye of the soul in order to bear the Divine Light.

• Meister Eckhart

2022 (#110) : Montessori , Jung , D.T. Suzuki , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Jeremiah , John , Derrida

It is by studying the behaviour of these children
and their re-actions to each other in this atmosphere of
freedom that the real secret of society is revealed. They
are fine and delicate facts that have to be examined
with a spiritual microscope, but they are of the utmost
interest since they reveal facts inherent in the very
nature of man. These schools, therefore, are thought
of as laboratories for psychological research, although
it is not really research, but observation that is carried
out. It is this observation which is important.

• Montessori

A product is created which is
influenced by both conscious and unconscious, embodying the striving of
the unconscious for the light and the striving of the conscious for
substance

• Jung

The truth is that what involves the totality of human ex-
istence is not a matter of intellection but of the will in its most
primary sense of the word. The intellect may raise all kinds of
questions— and it is perfectly right for it to do so— but to expect
any final answer from the intellect is asking too much of it,
for this is not in the nature of intellection. The answer lies
deeply buried under the bedrock of our being.

• D.T, Suzuki

A patient once brought me a drawing of a mandala, telling me that it
was a sketch for certain movements along lines in space. She danced
it for me, but most of us are too self-conscious and not brave enough
to do it. It was a conjuration or incantation to the sacred pool or
flame in the middle, the final goal, to be approached not directly but
by the stations of the cardinal points.

• Jung

The duality of subject and object and trinity of seer, sight, and seen can exist only if supported by God. If one turns inward in search of God they fall away. Those who see this are those who see Wisdom. They are never in doubt.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

Salome is an anima figure. She is blind because she does not see the
meaning of things. Elijah is the figure of the wise old prophet and
represents the factor of intelligence and knowledge; Salome, the erotic
element. One might say that the two figures are personifications of
Logos and Eros. But such a definition would be excessively intellectual.
It is more meaningful to let the figures be what they were for me at the
time – namely, events and experiences.

• Jung

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

• Jeremiah 31:3

I and the Father are one.

I and My Father are one.

I and my Father, We are One

• John 10:30

The possibility of this impossibility derails and shatters all unity, and
this is love; it disorganizes all studied discourses, all theoretical systems
and philosophies. They must decide between presence and absence, here
and there, what reveals and what conceals itself.

• Derrida

2022 (#109) : Malaguzzi , Jung , Nietzsche , Holderlin , Bhagavad Gita , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Mathew , John

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

He must make the emotional state the basis or
starting point of the procedure. He must make
himself as conscious as possible of the mood he is
in, sinking himself in it without reserve and noting
down on paper all the fantasies and other
associations that come up. Fantasy must be allowed
the freest possible play, yet not in such a manner
that it leaves the orbit of its object, namely the
affect.

• Jung

Still! Still! Did not the world become perfect just now? What is happening to me? As a delicate wind dances unseen on an inlaid sea, light, feather-light, thus sleep dances on me. My eyes it does not close, my soul it leaves awake. Light it is, verily, feather-light. It persuades me, I know not how. It touches me inwardly with caressing hands, it conquers me. Yes, it conquers me and makes my soul stretch out.

• Nietzsche

Then give us calm waters; 

Give us wings, and loyal minds

 To cross over and return.

• Holderlin

looking, psychologically, brings about the activation
of the object; it is as if something were emanating
from one’s spiritual eye that evokes or activates the
object of one’s vision.
The English verb, ‘to look at,’ does not convey this
meaning, but the German betrachten, which is an
equivalent, means also to make pregnant…. And if
it is pregnant, then something is due to come out of
it; it is alive, it produces, it multiplies. That is the
case with any fantasy image; one concentrates
upon it, and then finds that one has great difficulty
in keeping the thing quiet, it gets restless, it shifts,
something is added, or it multiplies itself; one fills
it with living power and it becomes pregnant.

• Jung

In whatever way men approach Me, even so do I reward them; My path do men tread in all ways

• Bhagavad Gita

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. Similarly, the ‘I am’ in movement creates the world. The ‘I am’ at peace becomes the Absolute.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. —

• Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH

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

2022 (#108) : Bettelheim , Malaguzzi , Jung , Bhagavad Gita , Emerson , Tao Te Ching , Mark , Mathew , Derrida

A child, for example, who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at
first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful
friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be
changed from a menace into a desirable companion. Belief in the “truth” of the fairy tale
gives him courage not withdraw because of the way this stranger appears to him at first.
Recalling how the hero of many a fairy tale succeeded in life because he dared to
befriend a seemingly unpleasant figure, the child believes he may work the same magic.

• Bettelheim

Observing in this way offers tremendous benefits. It
requires a shift in the role of the teacher from an
emphasis of teaching to an emphasis on learning,
teachers learning about themselves as teachers as
well as teachers learning about children. This is a
self-learning that takes place for the teacher and it
enables the teacher to see things that are taking place
in children that teachers were not able to see before.

• Malaguzzi

Every good idea and all creative work are the
offspring of the imagination, and have their source
in what one is pleased to call infantile fantasy. Not
the artist alone, but every creative individual
whatsoever owes all that is greatest in his life to
fantasy. The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a
characteristic also of the child, and as such it
appears inconsistent with the principle of serious
work. But without this playing with fantasy no
creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt
we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

• Jung

and in that way you will always remain unattached and free from bondage

• Bhagavad Gita

“As it is present in all persons, so it is in every period of life. it is adult already in the infant man” —

• Emerson

My most fundamental views and ideas derive from
these experiences. First I made the observations
and only then did I hammer out my views. And so
it is with the hand that guides the crayon or brush,
the foot that executes the dance-step, with the eye
and the ear, with the word and the thought: a dark
impulse is the ultimate arbiter of the pattern, an
unconscious a priori precipitates itself into plastic
form.

• Jung

He sees things as they are,

without trying to control them.

He lets them go their own way,

and resides at the center of the circle.

• Tao Te Ching

What I say to you, I say to everyone: “Watch!”

• Mark 13:37

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

8 “How blessed are the pure in heart!
for they will see God. –

(Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH)

What should the language be such that seeing it and falling into it would be the same event?

• Derrida

2022 (#107) : Lella Gandini , Montessori , Marie-Louise von Franz , Bhagavad Gita , Jung , Jeremiah , Mark , John Ashbery

Literacy
and play, indeed all learning and play, can go together. They really must
go together; together they can and should be pleasurable and rewarding
experiences for children, and for teachers and parents as well, who clearly
want the best possible for their children now and for the future.

• Lella Gandini

 Something continues in the sub-conscious,
because what has been formed by the child can never
be totally destroyed. This Mneme, which may be con-
sidered as a superior natural memory, not only creates
characteristics, but holds them alive in the individual.
The individual changes, it is true, but those things which
are formed by the child remain in the personality just
as the legs remain, so that each man has this special
character.

• Montessori

The actual process of individuation the conscious coming-to-terms with one’ s own inner
center (psychic nucleus ) or Self—generally be –
gins with a wounding of the personality and the
suffering that accompanie sit. This initial shock
amount s to a sort of “call, ” although it is not
often recognized as such. On the contrary, the
ego feels hampered in its will or its desire and
usually projects the obstruction onto something
external.

• Marie-Louise von Franz

When one’s wisdom, mind, faith and refuge are all fixed in the Supreme, then one becomes fully cleansed of misgivings through complete understanding and thus proceeds straight on the path of liberation

• Bhagavad Gita

When something long since passed away comes back again in a changed world, it is new. To give birth to the ancient in a new time
is creation. This is the creation of the new, and that redeems me.Salvation is the resolution of the task. The task is to give birth to the old in a new time

• Jung

On e is seeking some –
thing that is impossible to find or about which
nothing is known. In such moment s all well meant, sensible advic e is completely useless –
advic e that urges one to try to be responsible,
to take a holiday, not to work so hard (or to
work harder), to have mor e (or less) human contact, or to take up a hobby . None o f that helps,
or at best only rarely. There is only one thing
that seems to work ; and that is to turn directly
toward the approaching darkness without pre –
judic e and totally naively, and to try to find
out wha t its secret aim is and what it want s
from you.

• Mari-Louise von Franz

2 “Thus says Adonai the maker,
Adonai who formed [the universe]
so as to keep directing it —
Adonai is his name:
3 ‘Call out to me,
and I will answer you —
I will tell you great things,
hidden things of which you are unaware.

• Jeremiah/Yirmeyah 33:2-3

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

• Mark 10:14

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