2022 (#171) : David Elkind , Rilke , Numbers , Mathew , I Ching , Nietzsche , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Luke , John

Many of us can easily observe the benefits of integrating play, love, and
work at home. During the first few years of their lives, young children are—in a
quite literal sense—visiting a foreign country for the first time. Because kids do not think in adult concepts and categories, they often approach this “new land” from many different perspectives simultaneously. Metaphorically speaking,
they observe water and sand, trees and woods, plants and animals, the moon,
the sun, the stars, all of it, as if through the eyes of an artist, or a naturalist, or
a writer, or a scientist. When we offer our children opportunities to explore
this new and exciting world in their own time and at their own pace, we open
them up to powerful learning experiences they could not encounter in any other
way. Why intrude on a time when children are instinctively learning with such
joy and enthusiasm? Why rush babies and preschoolers and school kids into
adult-led learning experiences.

• David Elkind

There is noth ing that does not seem to have
been understood , grasped, experienced and recogn ized in the
tremu lous after-ring of memory; no experience has been too
sl ight. and the l east i ncident unfolds like a desti ny, and fate itself
is like a wonderfu l, wide web in which each thread is guided by an
i nfin itely tender hand and laid alongside another and held and
borne up by a hundred others .

• Rilke

The donkey saw the angel of Adonai standing on the road, drawn sword in hand; so the donkey turned off the road into the field

• Numbers

Lucky Earth at liberty, play tag with youths
who long to catch you. Will any succeed?
Only those most happily delighting.

• Rilke

 They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.

• Mathew

after Falling Away comes Turning Back

after Splitting Apart comes Return

• I Ching, Hexagram 24

Then the angel of Adonai stood on the road where it became narrow as it passed among the vineyards and had stone walls on both sides. 

• Numbers

This is an extremely strange beginning. I had discovered the only historical
simile and facsimile of my own innermost experience, – and this led
me to understand the amazing phenomenon of the Dionysian, the first
person ever to have done so.

• Nietzsche

The person has no being in itself; it is a reflection in the mind of the witness, the ‘I am’, which again is a mode of being.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

maybe Adonai will come and meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you.

• Numbers

Once you are well-established in the now, you have nowhere else to go what you are timelessly, you express eternally.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

the light shines in the darkness

the bright situation begins again

• I Ching, Hexagram 24

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

• Luke 17:20-21

All these things at last play out:
darkness and brilliant light,
flower and book.

• Rilke

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

going around and beginning again

endless cyclic motion

• I Ching, Hexagram 24

2022 (#170) : Vivian Paley , Bhagavad Gita , Mathew , Rilke , Derrida , Numbers , Paul Celan , Jung , John Ashbery , Psalms

I am still listening to what the children say, but since the younger children
disclose more of themselves as characters in a story than as participants in a discussion, I must now follow the plot as carefully as the dialogue. School begins to make
sense to the children when they pretend it is something else. And teaching, in a
way, makes sense to me when I pretend the classroom is a stage and we are all
actors telling our stories.

• Vivian Paley

Interwoven in his creation, the Spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring to an end the Spirit which is everlasting.

• Bhagavad Gita

they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. 

• Mathew

awakens from the slumbering nectar
luminous twin significance
of sun and earth; presence and joy – immensense!

• Rilke

“Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.

• 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.

• Derrida

“Make a poisonous snake and put it on a pole. When anyone who has been bitten sees it, he will live.”

• Numbers

But, night approaching, they move more gently, and soon
upsurges, bathed in moonlight, the allguarding sepulchral stone. Twin-brother to that on the Nile,
the lofty Sphinx, the taciturn chamber’s gaze.
And they start at the regal head that has silently poised,
for ever, the human face
on the scale of the stars.

• Rilke

Moshe made a bronze snake and put it on the pole; if a snake had bitten someone, then, when he looked toward the bronze snake, he stayed alive.

• Numbers

What is it called, your country

behind the mountain, behind the year?

I know what it’s called.

• Paul Celan

 “Out of Egypt I called my son.”^[c]

• Mathew

O tender ones, now and again
stand in the waves of a foreign air
which parts upon your cheeks and then,
trembling, rejoins behind you there.

• Rilke

“Spring up, oh well!
Sing to the well
¹⁸ sunk by the princes,
dug by the people’s leaders
with the scepter,
with their staffs!”

• Numbers

Exalting he came, fine ore smelted from mute
stone, anointed to the office of praise;
mortal heart poised to press our fruit
into deathless wine of endless days.

• Rilke

John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

• Mathew

He is shown tied to the “slave’s post,” has an ass’s head,
and Horus stands before him with a knife in his hand.

• Jung

You’ve got to remember we don’t see that much.

We see a portion of eaves dripping in the pastel book

And are aware that everything doesn’t count equally —

There is dreaminess and infection in the sum

• John Ashbery

Christ reigns over all things as God, who, on the outstretched cross, reaches out through the four extremities of the wood to the four parts of the wide world,
that he may draw unto life the peoples from all lands.

• Jung

 the way an ox licks up grass in the field.

• Numbers

He does not choke on the dust
stirred up by transcendent metaphor:
all becomes arbor; grapes of succulent rust
matured in the sun of his Southern shore.

• Rilke

“Stay here tonight, and I will bring you back whatever answer Adonai tells me.”

• Numbers

Suddenly, hesitant and awkward,
she chooses a constellation among our voices
and flings it, free of sorrow, heavenward.

• Rilke

I am like a leafy olive tree
in the house of God;
I put my trust in the grace of God
forever and ever.

• Tehillim/Psalms 52:10

Dance the orange. Who can forget it?. . .
nearly self-drowned in its own sweetness,
yet it overcomes. You have possessed it;
become its own luscious completeness.

• Rilke

At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 

• Mathew

Quick though the earth itself churns,
changing like cloud formations,
each fulfilled thing returns
to ancient foundations.

• Rilke

2022 (#169) : Montessori , Lella Gandini , Vivian Paley , Numbers , Rilke , Mathew , Shankara , Nietzsche

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

Teachers observe the children in these possibility-rich environments, and on the basis of shared observations and documentations, they
construct new possibilities for the children.

• Lella Gandini

The key is curiosity, and it is curiosity, not answers, that we model. As we seek
to learn more about a child, we demonstrate the acts of observing, listening, questioning, and wondering. When we are curious about a child’s words and our responses to those words, the child feels respected. The child is respected. “What are
these ideas I have that are so interesting to the teacher? I must be somebody with
good ideas.” Children who know others are listening may begin to listen to themselves, and if the teacher acts as the tape recorder, they may one day become their
own critics.

• Vivian Paley

tell the rock to produce its water.

• Numbers

Yes, the Springs had need of you. Many a star
was waiting for you to espy it. Many a wave
would rise on the past towards you; or, else, perhaps,
as you went by an open window, a violin
would be giving itself to someone. All this was a trust.

• Rilke

“We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

• Mathew

Early successes, Creation’s pampered darlings,
ranges, summits, dawn-red ridges
of all beginning,—pollen of blossoming godhead,
hinges of light, corridors, stairways, thrones

• Rilke

I am of the innate nature that is ever liberated.

• Shankara

Like dew from the morning grass
exhales from us that which is ours, like heat
from a smoking dish.

• Rilke

Water flowed out in abundance, and the community and their livestock drank.

• Numbers

Angel! Oh, take it, pluck it, that small-flowered herb of healing!
Shape a vase to preserve it. Set it among those joys
not yet opened to us; in a graceful urn
praise it

• Rilke

When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.

• Mathew

I will say a general word about my art of style. To
communicate a state, an inner tension of pathos, with signs, including the
tempo of these signs – that is the meaning of every style; and considering
that I have an extraordinary number of inner states, I also have a lot of
stylistic possibilities – the most multifarious art of style that anyone has
ever had at his disposal. Every style that really communicates an inner
state is good, every style that is not wrong about signs, about the tempo
of signs, about gestures – all laws concerning periods involve the art of
gesture. My instinct here is unfailing.

• Nietzsche

2022 (#168) : Montessori , Malaguzzi , Walt Whitman , Nietzsche , I Ching , Derrida , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Bhagavad Gita , Mark , Genesis , John Ashbery , Emerson

It is
evident that if the child meets with obstacles, his creative
work becomes less perfect. We do not any longer help
the child because he is a small and weak being. No ! We
have realised that the child is endowed with great creative
powers, that these great powers are delicate in their
nature and can be thwarted if obstacles are placed in
their path. It is these powers we wish to help, not the
small child, not his weakness.

• Montessori

Therefore, it’s possible to observe, to receive a lot of pleasure and satisfaction from observing in many different ways. When the child is observed, the child is happy — it’s almost an honor that he is observed by an adult. On the other hand, a good teacher who knows how to observe feels good about himself because that person knows that he is able to take something from the situation, transform it, and understand it in a new way.

• Malaguzzi

The old, old urge,
Based on the ancient pinnacles, lo, newer, higher pinnacles

• Walt Whitman

The whole surface
of consciousness -consciousness is a surface – has to be kept free from all of
the great imperatives. Be careful even of great words, great attitudes. They
pose the threat that instinct will ‘understand itself’ too early. – – In the
mean time, the organizing, governing ‘idea’ keeps growing deep inside, –
it starts commanding, it slowly leads back from out of the side roads
and wrong turns, it gets the individual qualities and virtues ready, since
at some point these will prove indispensable as means to the whole, –
one by one, it develops all the servile faculties before giving any clue
as to the domineering task, the ‘goal’, the ‘purpose’, the ‘meaning’.

• Nietzsche

We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body
and the soul,
Dwell a while and pass on

• Walt Whitman

Human life on earth is conditioned and unfree, and when man recognizes this limitation and makes himself dependent upon the harmonious and beneficent forces of the cosmos, he achieves success.

• I Ching

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

Rank order of abilities;
distance; the art of separating without antagonizing; not mixing anything,
not ‘reconciling’ anything; an incredible multiplicity that is nonetheless
the converse of chaos – this was the precondition, the lengthy, secret work
and artistry of my instinct. Its higher protection manifested itself so strongly
that I had absolutely no idea what was growing inside me, – and then one
day all my capabilities suddenly leapt out, ripened to ultimate perfection.
I have no memory of ever having made an effort, – you will not detect any
trace of struggle in my life, I am the opposite of a heroic nature. To ‘will’
anything, to ‘strive’ after anything, to have a ‘goal’, a ‘wish’ in mind –
I have never experienced this.

• Nietzsche

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

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

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

• Derrida

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

Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple

• Mark

and the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water.

• Bereshit/Genesis

Meanwhile the whole history of probabilities is coming to life, starting in the upper left-hand corner, like a sail

• John Ashbery

here the blue river,
The same blue wonder that my infant eye
Admired

• Emerson

2022 (#167) : Malaguzzi , Montessori , Vivian Paley , John Ashbery , Nietzsche , Walt Whitman , Prasna Upanishad , Jung , Mark , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Heidegger

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

• Malaguzzi

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

• Montessori

Reading between the lines is both easier and harder when the setting is preschool. It is easier because young children rehearse their lines over and over in
social play and private monologues, without self-consciousness; older children
have already learned to fear exposing their uncommon ideas. On the other hand,
the young child continually operates from unexpected premises. The older student’s thinking is closer to an adult’s and easier to fathom.

• Vivian Paley

I could swear it moved
in incomplete back yards
to endorse the conversation, request to be strapped in.
Then it will be time to take the step
giving fragile responses,
and finally he wrote the day.

• John Ashbery

Now that I have had considerable
experience in charting the effects of climatic and meteorological factors,
using myself as a very subtle and reliable instrument, and checking how I
am physiologically affected by a change in humidity even during a short
trip,

• Nietzsche

Like the concentric growing up of days
Around a life: correctly, if you think about it.
A breeze like the turning of a page
Brings back your face

• John Ashbery

The choice of nutrition; the choice of climate and location; – the third
thing that you should not get wrong at any cost is the choice of your mode of recuperation. Here too, the boundaries of the permissible (which is to say the usefitl) are increasingly narrow, according to the extent to which a spirit is sui generis. In my case, reading as a whole is a way of recuperating: accordingly, it is one of the things that lets me detach from myself and walk among foreign disciplines and souls, – who I do not take seriously any more. Reading recuperates me even from my own seriousness.

• Nietzsche

Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,

• Walt Whitman

‘Pour down the rain, let all things find their food, thrive, rejoice.

• Prasna Upanishad

It cannot be avoided any more, at this point there needs to be a genuine
answer to the question of how you become what you are. And this leads me to
that masterpiece in the art of survival – selfishness … Assuming, of course,
that the task, the vocation, the destiny of the task is far from ordinary, then
nothing is more dangerous than catching sight of yourself with this task.
Becoming what you are presupposes that you do not have the slightest idea
what you are. If you look at it this way, even life’s mistakes have their own
meaning and value, the occasional side roads and wrong turns, the delays,
the ‘modesties’, the seriousness wasted on tasks that lie beyond the task.
All these could be very clever moves, even as clever as it gets.

• Nietzsche

Ever the growth, the rounding of the circle

• Walt Whitman

The primordial image might suitably be described as the instinct’s
perception of itself, or as the self-portrait of the instinct.

• Jung

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

• Mark

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

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

Love your neighbor as yourself

• Mark

You are the constant illumination that lights up both the experience
and the void.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

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

• Mark

When the clever old man had brought the boy to this point he could
begin his good advice, i.e., the situation no longer looked hopeless. He
advised him to continue his wanderings, always to the eastward, where
after seven years he would reach the great mountain that betokened his
good fortune. The bigness and tallness of the mountain are allusions to his adult personality.Concentration of his powers brings assurance and is
therefore the best guarantee of success.From now on he will lack for
nothing. “Take my scrip and my flask,” says the old man, “and each day
you will find in them all the food and drink you need.” At the same time he
gave him a burdock leaf that could change into a boat whenever the boy
had to cross water.

• Jung

We never come to thoughts. They come

to us.

• Heidegger

2022 (#166) : Malaguzzi , Nietzsche , Mark , Jung , Walt Whitman , Emerson

The environment you construct around you and the
children also reflects this image you have about the
child. There’s a difference between the environment
that you are able to build based on a preconceived
image of the child and the environment that you can
build that is based on the child you see in front of you
— the relationship you build with the child, the
games you play. An environment that grows out of
your relationship with the child is unique and fluid.

• Malaguzzi

I prefer places where there are opportunities
all around you to drink out of running fountains.

• Nietzsche

“Go, and I wish you well.”

• Exodus

Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not conceived while moving around outside, – with your muscles in a celebratory mode as well. All prejudices come from the intestines. – Sitting down – I have said it before – is a true sin against the Holy Spirit.

• Nietzsche

And he took the staff of God in his hand.

• Exodus

The question of nutrition is most closely related to the questions of location and climate. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and someone with great tasks that require all his energy has particularly limited options here. The influence of climate on metabolism, inhibiting it or speeding it up, is so significant that a bad choice of location or climate can not only alienate someone from his task, but can keep him from it altogether: he never comes face to face with it. His animal vigour never reaches the point where freedom overflows into the most spiritual things and gives rise to the realization: I am the only one who can do this …

• Nietzsche

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

• Exodus

The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

• Mark

When the clever old man had brought the boy to this point he could
begin his good advice, i.e., the situation no longer looked hopeless. He
advised him to continue his wanderings, always to the eastward, where
after seven years he would reach the great mountain that betokened his
good fortune. The bigness and tallness of the mountain are allusions to his adult personality.Concentration of his powers brings assurance and is
therefore the best guarantee of success.From now on he will lack for
nothing. “Take my scrip and my flask,” says the old man, “and each day
you will find in them all the food and drink you need.” At the same time he
gave him a burdock leaf that could change into a boat whenever the boy
had to cross water.

• Jung

We feel the long pulsation, ebb and flow of endless motion,
The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the
briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables

• Walt Whitman

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

• Emerson

2022 (#165) : Malaguzzi , Vygotsky , Bettelheim , Genesis , Mundaka Upanishad , Mark , Derrida , Proverbs , John Ashbery ,

All of this is a great forest. Inside the forest is the child. The forest is beautiful, fascinating, green, and full of hopes; there are no paths. Although it isn’t easy, we have to make our own paths, as teachers and children and families, in the forest. Sometimes we find ourselves together within the forest, sometimes we may get lost from each other, sometimes we’ll greet each other from far away across the forest; but it’s living together in this forest that is important. And this living together is not easy.

• Malaguzzi

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

• Vygotsky

The fairy tale … is very much the result of common conscious and
unconscious content having been shaped by the conscious mind, not
of one particular person, but the consensus of many in regard to
what they view as universal human problems, and what they accept
as desirable solutions. If all these elements were not present in a
fairy tale, it would not be retold by generation after generation.

• Bettelheim

So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. ⁴⁶ He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

• Bereshit/Genesis

‘This is the truth: the sparks, though of one nature with the fire, leap from it; uncounted beings leap from the Everlasting, but these, my son, merge into It again.

• Mundaka Upanishad Book 2

 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness

• Bereshit/Genesis

the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death

• Mark

³ Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” 

• Bereshit/Bereshit

  the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

• Mark

that radical hospitality consists, would have to consist, in receiving without invitation, beyond or before the invitation.

• Derrida

Everything is possible for one who believes.

• Mark

Knowledge of the Holy One is understanding

• Mashal/Proverbs

The theme was articulated, the brightness filled in.

And when we tell about it

no wave of recollection comes gushing back …

There’s a smooth slightly concave space there instead:

the ghost of a naval.

• John Ashbery

I will be with you.

• Genesis

‘He who has found Him, seeks no more; the riddle is solved; desire gone, he is at peace. Having approached from everywhere that which is everywhere, whole, he passes into the Whole.

• Mundaka Upanishad Book 3

A ring awakens on our finger, and the fingers are the ring itself … the ring of the carrier-pigeon … transports, transfers, or translates a coded message … it must return from the other place to the same one, that from which it came, completing a round trip … sign of belonging and alliance, and condition of return … a manifestation of an alliance.

• Derrida

2022 (#164) : Vygotsky , Lella Gandini , Malaguzzi , Vivian Paley , Emerson , Proverbs , Heidegger , Exodus , Nietzsche , Sri Ramana Maharshi , William Blake , Genesis , Mark , Winnicott

Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people…, and then within the child. This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher [mental] functions originate as actual relations between human individuals.

• Vygotsky

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

• Lella Gandini

We need to think of the school as a living organism.

• Malaguzzi

Above all, I think, the continued
observation of children at play demonstrates the importance of make-believe as the thinking tool children use. The
reality is that most social, linguistic, logical interactions are usually better explained and understood in terms
of these imaginary themes. 

• Vivian Paley

Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul.

• Emerson

A happy heart makes the face cheerful,

• Proverbs/Mashal

In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs.

• Heidegger

“I am who I am.”

• Exodus

A spirit thus emancipated stands in the midst of the universe with a joyful and trusting fatalism, in the faith that only what is separate and individual may be rejected, that in the totality everything is redeemed and affirmed …

• Nietzsche

‘I am has sent me to you.’”

• Exodus

For the wise one who has known God by diving within himself, there is nothing other than God to be known.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

I gave thee Sheep-walks upon the Spanish Mountains Jerusalem
I gave thee Priams City and the Isles of Grecia lovely!

• William Blake

you^[b] will worship God on this mountain.

• Bereshit/Genesis

²² “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. ²³ “Truly^[f] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.

• Mark

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

• Winnicott

2022 (#163) : Montessori , Vivian Paley , Lella Gandini , Emerson , Proverbs , John , William Blake , Nietzsche , Isaiah , Eric Neumann , James , Mandaka Upanishad , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Mark , Meister Eckhart

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

• Montessori

We do more than tell our stories; we also act them out. The formal storytelling and acting that often arise out of and run parallel to the children’s fantasy play have become a central feature of our day. 

• Vivian Paley

Because we would discover a great deal about learning and relationship strategies shared with joy between adults and children and about the
creative play of inventing words and rhymes by children. We would learn
about the power of literacy developing in the interaction of adults with
children and of children with children in play.

• Lella Gandini

we distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature,  by the term REVELATION. these are always attended by the emotion of the sublime, for this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. it is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life, every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight. in these communications the power to see is not separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience. and the obedience proceeds from a joyful perception, every moment when a man feels invaded by it is memorable. revelation is the disclosure of the soul.

• Emerson

Light in a messenger’s eyes brings joy to the heart,
and good news gives health to the bones.

• Mashal/Proverbs

streams of living water will flow from within him

• John 7:37

Those who are kind benefit themselves

• Mashal/Proverbs

Contract or Expand Space at will: or if we raise ourselves
Upon the chariots of the morning. Contracting or Expanding Time!
Every one knows, we are One Family! One Man blessed for ever

• William Blake

it was as if he had been transformed by the stormy winds of freedom into
someone who has suddenly been raised to his height and given wings. I
always said to him that the air is good up here, as everyone finds out

• Nietzsche

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

• Isaiah 55:12

In Great Eternity, every particular Form gives forth or Emanates
Its own peculiar Light, & the Form is the Divine Vision
And the Light is his Garment This is Jerusalem in every Man
A Tent & Tabernacle of Mutual Forgiveness Male & Female Clothings.

• William Blake

The primordial mystery of weaving and spinning

• Eric Neumann

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

• James 3:13

‘Shining, yet hidden, Spirit lives in the cavern. Everything that sways, breathes, opens, closes, lives in Spirit; beyond learning, beyond everything, better than anything; living, unliving.

• Mundaka Upanishad Book 2

Its roots in the
darkness of the unconscious are identical with its roots in the night sky.
The stellar constellations of its “branches” are the manifestation of a
profound destiny for which above and below are one.

• Eric Neumann

Awareness is dynamic, love is being. Awareness is love in action. By itself the mind can actualise any number of possibilities, but unless they are prompted by love, they are valueless.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj – Maurice Friedman

With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.

• Mark

Only God flows into all things, their very essences. Nothing else flows into something else.

• Meister Eckhart

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

 It is the doubling of the heart itself, nay, the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side. It inspires in man an infallible trust. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is true, and may in that thought easily dismiss all particular uncertainties and fears, and adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles. He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.

• Emerson

If you watch a small

child of three, he is always playing with something.

That means he is elaborating with his hands, putting

into his consciousness, what his unconscious mind had

taken in before. It is by this experience in the environ-

ment in the guise of playing that he goes over the

things and the impressions that he has taken into his

unconscious mind. It is by means of work that he

becomes conscious and constructs Man. He is directed

by a marvellously grand mysterious power which little

by little he incarnates and thus he becomes a Man. He

becomes a man by means of his hands, by means of his

experience, first through play, then through work.

Montessori

We do more than tell our stories; we also act them out. The formal storytelling and acting that often arise out of and run parallel to the children’s fantasy play have become a central feature of our day. 

Vivian Paley

Because we would discover a great deal about learning and relationship strategies shared with joy between adults and children and about the

creative play of inventing words and rhymes by children. We would learn

about the power of literacy developing in the interaction of adults with

children and of children with children in play.

Lella Gandini

we distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature,  by the term REVELATION. these are always attended by the emotion of the sublime, for this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. it is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life, every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight. in these communications the power to see is not separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience. and the obedience proceeds from a joyful perception, every moment when a man feels invaded by it is memorable. revelation is the disclosure of the soul.

Emerson

Light in a messenger’s eyes brings joy to the heart,

and good news gives health to the bones.

Mashal/Proverbs

streams of living water will flow from within him

John 7:37

Those who are kind benefit themselves

Mashal/Proverbs

Contract or Expand Space at will: or if we raise ourselves

Upon the chariots of the morning. Contracting or Expanding Time!

Every one knows, we are One Family! One Man blessed for ever

William Blake

it was as if he had been transformed by the stormy winds of freedom into

someone who has suddenly been raised to his height and given wings. I

always said to him that the air is good up here, as everyone finds out

Nietzsche

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:12

In Great Eternity, every particular Form gives forth or Emanates

Its own peculiar Light, & the Form is the Divine Vision

And the Light is his Garment This is Jerusalem in every Man

A Tent & Tabernacle of Mutual Forgiveness Male & Female Clothings.

William Blake

The primordial mystery of weaving and spinning

Eric Neumann

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

James 3:13

‘Shining, yet hidden, Spirit lives in the cavern. Everything that sways, breathes, opens, closes, lives in Spirit; beyond learning, beyond everything, better than anything; living, unliving.

Mundaka Upanishad Book 2

Its roots in the

darkness of the unconscious are identical with its roots in the night sky.

The stellar constellations of its “branches” are the manifestation of a

profound destiny for which above and below are one.

Eric Neumann

Awareness is dynamic, love is being. Awareness is love in action. By itself the mind can actualise any number of possibilities, but unless they are prompted by love, they are valueless.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj – Maurice Friedman

With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.

Mark

Only God flows into all things, their very essences. Nothing else flows into something else.

Meister Eckhart

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

 It is the doubling of the heart itself, nay, the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side. It inspires in man an infallible trust. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is true, and may in that thought easily dismiss all particular uncertainties and fears, and adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles. He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.

Emerson

2022 (#162) : Montessori , Malaguzzi , Jung , Eric Neumann , Genesis , Mark , Nietzsche , Book of Bahir , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Derrida

This is the new shining hope for humanity. It is
not so much a reconstruction, as an aid to the construc-
tion carried out by the human soul as it is meant to be,
developed in all the immense potentialities with which
the new-born child is endowed.

• 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. 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

Depths and surface should mix so that new life can develop. Yet the new life does not develop outside of us, but within us.

• Jung

And the childbearing tree may be further differentiated into
treetop and nest, crib and cradle.

• Eric Neumann

because of your father’s God, who helps you,
    because of the Almighty,^[m] who blesses you
with blessings of the skies above,
    blessings of the deep springs below,
    blessings of the breast and womb.

• Bereshit/Genesis

Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.

• Mark

. He instinctively gathers his totality from everything he sees, hears, experiences: he is a principle of selection, he lets many things fall by the wayside. He is always in his own company, whether dealing with books, people, or landscapes: he honours by choosing, by permitting, by trusting.

• Nietzsche

Joseph is a fruitful vine,
    a fruitful vine near a spring,
    whose branches climb over a wall.^[

• Bereshit/Genesis

It is I who planted this “tree” that all the world might delight in it, and
made it an arch over all things and named it “universe,” for on it hangs the
universe and from it the universe emanates; all things have need of it and
behold it and tremble for it; it is thence that the souls emanate.

• Book of Bahir

On this perfect day, when everything is ripe and the grapes are not the
only things that are turning brown, I have just seen my life bathed in
sunshine: I looked backwards, I looked out, I have never seen so many
things that were so good, all at the same time.

• Nietzsche

realization is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realization is revealed.

• Sri Ramana Maharshi

While the form of the “book” is now going through a period of general upheaval, and while that form now appears less natural, and its history less transparent, than ever, and while one cannot tamper with it without disturbing everything else, the book form alone can no longer settle—here for example—the case of those writing processes which, in praaically questioning that form, must also dismantle it. Hence the necessity, today, of working out at every turn, with redoubled effort, the question of the preservation of names: of paleonymy. Why should an old name, for a determinate time, be retained? Why should the effects of a new meaning, concept, or object be damped by memory?

• Derrida