2023 (#80) : Malaguzzi , Winnicott , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Nietzsche , Mashal 18:16 , J. Klein , Heidegger , I Ching , Mark 14:6 , Jung , Mashal 18:4 , John Ashbery , Mark 13:31 , Mashal 17:7 , David Steine, Jr

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

Whatever I say about children playing really applies to adults
as well, only the matter is more difficult to describe when the
patient’s material appears mainly in terms of verbal communication.
I suggest that we must expect to find playing just as evident
in the analyses of adults as it is in the case of our work with
children. It manifests itself, for instance, in the choice of words,
in the inflections of the voice, and indeed in the sense of humour.

—- Winnicott

Everything is a play of ideas. In the state free from ideation (nirvikalpa samadhi) nothing is perceived. The root idea is ‘I am’. It shatters the state of pure consciousness and is followed by the innumerable sensations and perceptions, feelings and ideas, which in their totality constitute God and His world. The ‘I am’ remains as the witness, but it is by the will of God that everything happens.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj/Maurice Frydman 

So many strange things have passed before me in those timeless moments
that fall into one’s life as if from the moon, when one no longer has
any idea how old one is or how young one will yet be.

— Nietzsche

A gift opens doors;
    it gives access to the great.

— Mashal 18:16

By focusing the mind on ‘I am’, on the sense of being, ‘I am soand-so’ dissolves; ‘am a witness only’ remains and that too submerges in ‘I am all’. Then the all becomes the One and the One – yourself, not to be separate from me. Abandon the idea of a separate ‘I’ and the question of ‘whose experience?’ will not arise. On a deeper level my experience is your experience. Dive deep within yourself and you will find it easily and simply. Go in the direction of ‘I am’-

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Liberation means to live freely in the beauty of your absence. You see at one moment that there’s nothing seen and no seer. Then you live it.

— J. Klein

When thought’s courage stems from

the bidding of Being, then

destiny’s language thrives.

As soon as we have the thing before

our eyes, and in our hearts an ear

for the word, thinking prospers.

We never come to thoughts. They come

to us.

— Heidegger

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

—- I Ching

She has performed a good service for me. 

— Mark 14:6

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

— I Ching

The mandala signifies the human or divine self, the totality or vision of God.

— Jung

inner and outer are in accord; confidence of the spirits has been captured; sincere, truthful; proper to take action

—- I Ching

The fountain of wisdom is a gushing stream.

— Mashal 18:4

All this came to pass eons ago.

Your program worked out perfectly. You even avoided

The monotony of perfection by leaving in certain flaws:

a backward way of becoming, a forced handshake.

An absent-minded smile, though in fact nothing was left to chance.

Each detail was startlingly clear, as though seen through a magnifying

glass,

Or would have been to an ideal observer, namely yourself

— John Ashbery

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

— Mark 13:31

A friend loves at all times

— Mashal 17:7

We are told that God proclaims, open your hearts for me like a pinpoint, and I will open for you the great doorways. 

— David Steine, Jr

Make the Hermetic vessel out of your psychic wholeness and pour into it the aqua permanens, or aqua doctrinae.

—- Jung 

2023 (#79) : Malaguzzi , Montessori , Emerson , 2 Kings , Heidegger , Derrida , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , John Ashbery , Luke 17:20 , Tao Te Ching , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Job 10:12 , John 3:34 , Job 9:10 , Nietzsche , Ruth 2:20,4:1 , Bruce D. Rogers , David Steine, Jr , Job 9:8 , D.T. Suzuki

We need to think of the school as a living organism.
Children have to feel that the world is inside the
school and moves and thinks and works and reflects
on everything that goes on.

— Malaguzzi

We speak because we have observed life, we have
observed nature and nature has revealed this fact. It is
only through freedom and by experiences upon the
environment that man can develop.

—- Montessori

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

—- Emerson

“Because your heart was responsive”

• 2 Kings

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

• Heidegger

That which returns is the constant affirmation, the “yes, yes”. That which signs here is in the form of a return, which is to say it has the form of something that cannot be simple. It is a selective return without negativity, or which reduces negativity through affirmation, through alliance or marriage (hymen), that is, through an affirmation that is also binding on the other or that enters into a pact with itself as other.

— Derrida

Just as the taste of salt pervades the great ocean and every single drop of sea-water carries the same flavour, so every experience gives me the touch of reality, the ever fresh realisation of my own being.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman

Stitching the white of lilacs together with lightning

• John Ashbery

the kingdom of God is within you.

• Luke 17:20

All things are born from it
It nourishes infinite worlds,
yet it doesn’t hold on to them

• Tao Te Ching

Those who know that what is to be experienced by them in this life is only what is already destined in their prarabdha will never feel perturbed about what is to be experienced. Know that all one’s experiences will be thrust upon one whether one wills them or not.

— Sri Ramana Maharshi

You granted me life and grace;
your careful attention preserved my spirit.

Job 10:12

God[i] gives the Spirit without limit.

— John 3:34

He does great, unsearchable things,

— Job 9:10

The fatality of human existence cannot be extricated from the fatality of everything that was and will be.

• Nietzsche

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

• Ruth 2:20

Descending the two vertical sides, these are those which

Can also unsay an infinite number of pauses

In the ceramic day. Every invitation

To every stranger is met at the station.

• John Ashbery

“Come over here my friend and sit down.”

— Ruth 4:1

The dinner that evening had a very festive air 

— Bruce D. Rogers

Don’t say that you are an individual; just stay in the beingness. The whole problem is the sense of being a separate entity – once that subsides, that is true bliss. With the arising of the “I Am” the whole of manifestation takes place; in any activity that which witnesses is the “I Am,” that which is doing all this is maya, the tendencies, attributes.

• Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I do not know how or when I will die, but I know that I must.

— David Steine, Jr

He alone spreads out the sky

and walks on the waves in the sea

— Job 9:8

Zen is a wafting cloud in the sky. No screw fastens it, no string holds it; it moves as it lists. No amount of meditation will keep it in one place. Meditation is not Zen, Neither pantheism nor monotheism provides Zen with its subjects of concentration. If Zen is monotheistic, it may tell its followers to meditate on the oneness of things where all diflferences and inequalities, enveloped in the all-illuminating brightness of the divine light, are obliterated. If Zen were pantheistic it would tell us that every meanest flower in the field reflects the glory of God.

— D.T. Suzuki

2023 (#78) : Montessori , Malaguzzi , Emerson , Bhagavad Gita , Nietzsche , Mashal 14:26 , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Derrida , Mashal 8:23-30 , John 14:1,4 , D.W. Winnicott , Bereshit 9:13-14 , Lacan , Mathew 6:9-10 , Bruce. D. Rogers , ee cummings

The principle and idea today are too much directed
towards self- perfection, . If we understand
the real aim of movement this self-centralization cannot
exist ; it must expand into the immensity of space. We
must, in short, keep in mind what might be called the
philosophy of movement.

—- Montessori

The quality and quantity of relationships among you
as adults and educators also reflects your image of
the child.

—- Malaguzzi

By the same fire, vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean light, we see and know each other and what spirit each is of.

— Emerson

By divine grace comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and the intellect of such a person of tranquil mind soon becomes firmly established in God.

—- Bhagavad Gita

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

In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence

— Mashal 14:26

The mind is no more. There is only love in action.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj/Maurice Friedman

The flaw, the error of first sight is to see, and not to notice the invisible.

— Derrida

The Lord formed me from the beginning, before he created any-
thing else. …I was there when he set the clouds above, when he
established springs deep in the earth. …And when he marked off the earth’s foundations, I was the architect at his side. I was his constant delight, rejoicing always in his presence. —

—- Mashal 8:23-30

see the Soul of all souls in every living being. Though performing all kinds of actions, you are never entangled

—- Bhagavad Gita

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms;

— John 14:1

spirit. What surpasses the senses still passes before us in the silhouette of the sensuous body that it nevertheless lacks or that remains inaccessible to us.

—- Derrida

 You know the way to the place where I am going. 

— John 14:4

The natural thing is playing, and the highly sophisticated twentieth-century phenomenon is psychoanalysis. It must be of value to the analyst to be constantly reminded not only of what is owed to Freud but also of what we owe to the natural and universal thing called playing.

—- D.W. Winnicott

 I am putting my rainbow in the cloud — it will be there as a sign of the covenant between myself and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth, and the rainbow is seen in the cloud; 

— Bereshit 9:13-14

These breaches and openings sometimes reorganize, at least virtually, the entire field of knowledge. It is necessary, as always, to be ready to give oneself over to them, and to be able to give them back their revolutionary force. An invincible force.

— Derrida

There is something which is distinct from the pleasure principle and which tends to reduce all animate things to the inanimate—that is how Freud puts it. What does he mean by this? What obliges him to think that? Not the death of living beings. It’s human experience, human interchanges, intersubjectivity. Something of what he observes in man constrains him to step out of the limits of life. No doubt there is a principle which brings the libido back to death, but it doesn’t bring it back any old how. If it brought it back there by the shortest paths, the problem would be resolved. But it brings it back there only along the paths of life, so it happens… It cannot find death along any old road. In other words, the machine looks after itself, maps out a certain curve, a certain persistence. And it is along the very path of this subsistence that something else becomes manifest, sustained by this existence it finds there and which shows it its passage.

— Lacan

your kingdom come,

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

— Mathew 6:9-10

It was one of those cold, crisp but beautiful Nordic autumn days that preaged an early winter; the leaves were falling and their colors were deep and vibrant.

— Bruce. D. Rogers 

a pretty a day
(and every fades)
is here and away
(but born are maids
to flower an hour
in all,all)

— ee cummings 

2023 (#77) : Malaguzzi , Emerson , Mashal 5:18 , ee cummings , Nietzsche , Derrida , Bereshit 35:14-15 , John 13:8 , Mashal 5:19 , Bruce D. Rogers , Bereshit 35:19-20 , Chuang-tzu , Freud , Mark 12:30

We must forge strong alliances with the families of
our children. Imagine the school as an enormous
hot air balloon. The hot air balloon is on the ground
when the parents bring their children in the
morning. Some parents think the balloon is going to
rise up and fly around during the day. Others
would really prefer that the balloon remain on the
ground because that way they are sure their children
are safe and protected. But the children want to go
up and fly and travel everywhere in a hot air
balloon, to see in this different way, to look at things
from above. Our problem is that to make the hot air
balloon fly we have to make sure that parents
understand the importance of what the teachers and
children are doing in the hot air balloon. Flying
through the air, seeing the world in a different way,
adds to the wealth of all of us, particularly the
children.

— Malaguzzi

Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship as not to prejudice its perfect flower by your impatience for its opening.

— Emerson 

Let your fountain be blessed

— Mashal 5:18

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)

— ee cummings

Your fullness looks out over raging seas and searches and waits; the longing of over-fullness gazes out of the smiling heavens of your eyes!

— Nietzsche/Zarathustra 

Being and its realm. This is the first determination of Being. It possesses an empire, whence its metamorphosis into a plurality of beings. This is the first birth of the plural, birth itself, the origin of number and progeniture. of course, the word “realm” already transfers the table of the commandments or the table of categories from Being to an evangelical ground. 

— Derrida

14 Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. 15 Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel (“House of God”)

— Bereshit 35:14,15

 Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.

— John 13:8

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

— ee cummings 

Let her affection fill you at all times with delight,
    be infatuated always with her love.

— Mashal 5:19

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

I was delighted with the family that was designated as my hosts.

— Bruce D. Rogers

19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb.

— Bereshit 35:19-20 

Birth and death, profit and loss,

success and failure, health and sickness —

these qualities are the world

in its constant transformations.

Day in and day out

they vanish into each other

before our eyes

— Chuang-tzu — trans. S Mitchell

This is the dream’s navel, the spot where it reaches down into the unknown.

— Freud

… went out of their way to tell me how happy they were that I was living with them.

— Bruce D. Rogers

… to the structure of the dream-wish, which must be born, like a mushroom, at the point of greatest density of a meshwork …

— Derrida 

you shall 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 12:30

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call my own.

— Emerson 

2023 (#76) : Malaguzzi , Montessori , Emerson , Mundaka Upanishad , Mark 12:28 , Mashal 12:22 , ee cummings , Sri Ramana Maharshi , John 8:58 and 16:7 , Ezekial 1:4 , Derrida , Reta Guttman

What we have to do now is draw out the image of the
child, draw the child out of the desperate situations
that many children find themselves in. If we redeem
the child from these difficult situations, we redeem
ourselves.

• Malaguzzi

A vital force is active in the individual and
leads it towards its own evolution.

— Montessori 

Should not the society of my friend be to me poetic, pure, universal, and great as nature itself?

— Emerson 

There is nothing in this world, that is not God, He is action, purity; everlasting Spirit

— Mundaka Upanishad Book 2

The Lord our God, the Lord is one; 

— Mark 12:28

those who act faithfully are his delight.

— Mashal 12:22

i have found what you are like
the rain

(Who feathers frightened fields
with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields

easily the pale club of the wind
and swirled justly souls of flower strike

the air in utterable coolness

— ee cummings

‘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. ‘It is the undying blazing Spirit, that seed of all seeds, wherein lay hidden the world and all its creatures. It is life, speech, mind, reality, immortality. 

— Mundaka Upanishad Book 2

And the coolness of your smile is
stirringofbirds between my arms;but
i should rather than anything
have(almost when hugeness will shut
quietly)almost,
your kiss

— ee cummings

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

Before Abraham was , I am.

— John 8:58

The cosmic mind, being not limited by the ego, has nothing separate from itself and is therefore only aware. This is what the Bible means by ‘I am that I am’.

— Sri Ramana Maharshi

I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

— John 16:7

The desire of the moth for the star

— John Ashbery

As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness round about it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.

— Ezekial 1:4

This condensation of history, of language, of the encyclopedia, remains here indissociable from an absolutely singular event, an absolutely singular signature, and therefore also of a date, of a language, of an autobiographical inscription. In a minimal autobiographical trait can be gathered the greatest potentiality of historical, theoretical, linguistic, philosophical culture — that’s really what interests me.

— Derrida

the changing of the time, and also the change within a person 

— Reta Guttman

With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun

Fills the shadows and windy places

— John Ashbery 

2023 (#75) : Montessori , Bhagavad Gita , ee cummings , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Tehillim 119:30 , John Ashbery , John 16:12,13 , Derrida , Jung , Mashal 11:23 , John 17:6,7 , Bereshit 1:21 , Mashal 11:25 , Reta Guttman , Mashal 12:14

When we understand that
these powers belong to an unconscious mind which must
become conscious by work and experience carried out
in the environment, when we realise that the child’s
mind is different from ours, that we cannot reach it and
teach him things, that we cannot directly intervene in
this process of passing from the unconscious to the
conscious and of constructing the human faculties ; then
the whole conception of education will change and will
become that of a help to the child’s life. Education will
take the guise of an aid to the psychic development of
man and not of making him memorize ideas and facts.

• Montessori

Great transcendental happiness comes to the yogi whose mind is calm, whose passions are subdued, who is without regret or worry, and who sees everything in connection with God.

— Bhagavad Gita

through sames of am through haves of give,
singing each morning out of each night
my father moved through depths of height

— ee cummings

Live your life intelligently, with the interests of your deepest Self always in mind. After all, what do you really want? Not perfection; you are already perfect. What you seek is to express in action what you are. For this you have a body and a mind.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj/Maurice Frydman 

I have chosen the way of faithfulness

— Tehillim 119:30

built out of the meshing of life and space

At the point where we are wholly revealed

In the lozenge-shaped openings. 

— John Ashbery

I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

— John 16:12,13

The theatrical cannot here be summed up in speech: it involves forces, space, law, kinship, the human, the divine, death, play, festivity.

— Derrida

I had a vision: I was with a youth in high mountains. It was before daybreak, the Eastern sky was already light. Then Siegfried’s horn resounded over the mountains with a jubilant sound.

— Jung

The desire of the righteous ends only in good

— Mashal 11:23

Man naturally ripens and becomes ready for realization. Self-remembrance, awareness of ‘l am’ ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj/Maurice Frydman 

I have revealed you (your name)[a] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.

— John17:6,7

Unaware among the pretty lunging of the wind,

Light and shade, is like coming out of

A coma that is a white, interesting country,

Prepared to lose the main memory in a meeting

— John Ashbery

What one calls life-the thing or object of biology and biography-does
not stand face to face with something that would be its opposable ob-ject: death, the thanatological or thanatographical.

— Derrida

The great sea monsters which I created on the fifth day of creation , and which I have preserved until that time shall then be food for all who are left.

— Bereshit 1:21 

A liberal man will be enriched,
    and one who waters will himself be watered.

— Mashal 11:25

He piles up hypotheses: the child throws his bobbin. he brings it back in order to say this or that to his mother, and so forth. I won’t attempt to reconstitute here this whole very complicated scene. To be sure, the theme of play is there. However, if one understands the fort/da beyond what it seems Freud intends to say, then one may exceed the limits of the game toward the play of the world where the fort/da is no longer simply the relation of subject to object. It is. instead, that which has absolute command over all experience in general.

— Derrida

When Rabbi called and said, “Reta, as the mother of a rabbi, there’s something I want you to do”, I never dreamed that he was going to ask me to speak …

— Reta Guttman 

From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good

— Mashal 12:14

Behemoth is unquestionably not a sea animal, but one which, as a midrash says, “pastures on a thousand mountains.”

— Jung

We were the only people in the room.

— Reta Guttman 

He himself is doing fort/da with his own interpretations, and it never stops. His own writing,his own deportment in this text is doing fort/da. Perhaps the performative is in play as well, in a very serious manner. but the game is also very serious and demands great concentration. He plays with this fort/da in his writing: he doesn’t “comprehend” it. He writes himself this scene, which is descriptive
or theoretical but also very profoundly autobiographical and performative to the degree that it concerns him in his relation with his heirs

— Derrida

I have become my mother’s sensitivity and my father’s reason, and some of their hopes for me. 

— Reta Guttman

2023 (#74) : Montessori , Vygotsky , Emerson , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Mashal 4:12 , Wallace Stevens , Nietzsche , Mashal 4:21.22 , ee cummings , William Faulkner , Derrida , Mark 10:44,45 , Mimi Klein , John 15:5 , Jung

 The child
undergoes a transformation. The impressions not only
penetrate the mind of the child, but form it. They become
incarnate. The child makes its own * mental flesh ‘ by
using the things that are in his environment.

— Montessori 

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 sweet sincerity of joy and peace, which I draw from this alliance with my brother’s soul, is the nut itself, whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell. Happy is the house that shelters a friend! 

— Emerson 

Need the person have any designs of its own? The life of which it is an expression will guide it. Once you realise that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not reality itself, you cease to fret and worry. You agree to be guided from within and life becomes a journey into the unknown.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj  

When you walk, your step will not be hampered;
    and if you run, you will not stumble.

— Mashal 4:12

He had to choose. But it was not a choice 

 Between excluding things. It was not a choice 

 Between, but of. He chose to include the things 

 That in each other are included, the whole, 

 The complicate, the amassing harmony 

— Wallace Stevens

Our entire world is the cinder of innumerable living beings; and what is living is so little in relation to the whole, it must be that, once already, everything was transformed into life and it will continue to be so.”

—- Nietzsche 

 to speak of that select and sacred relation which is a kind of absolute, and which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common, so much is this purer, and nothing is so much divine.

— Emerson 

Let them not escape from your sight;
    keep them within your heart.
 For they are life to him who finds them,
    and healing to all his flesh.

— Mashal 4:21.22

breasts will be breasts and thighs will be thighs
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
-time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough

— ee cummings

the voice not ceasing but vanishing into and then out of the long intervals like a stream, a trickle running from patch to patch of dried sand, and the ghost mused with shadowy docility

— William Faulkner 

 The unconscious is not, as we know, a hidden, virtual, or potential self-presence. It differs from, and defers, itself; which doubtless means that it is woven of differences, and also that it sends out delegates, representatives, proxies; but without any chance that the giver of proxies might “exist,” might be present, be “itself” somewhere … 

— Derrida

When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases. Identity remains, but identity is not a person, it is inherent in the reality itself. 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 

whoever would be great among you must be your servant,  and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.  For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

— Mark 10:44,45

We hardly realize when we actually understand what we’re saying.

— Mimi Klein

All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.

— ee cummings

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me  you can do nothing.

— John 15:5

it’s spring
and the goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

— ee cummings 

Gradually, I grew up, and I began to understand and identify with the impulses.

— Mimi Klein 

Celebrated in the month of Adar, the fish 

— Jung 

reading and writing, mastery and play, the paradoxes of supplementarity, and the graphic relations between the living and the dead.

— Derrida

2023 (#73) : Malaguzzi , Daniel Goleman , Li Po , Sri Ramana Maharshi , William Blake , Bhagavad Gita , Sirach 9:14 , Nietzsche , Sri Atmanada , John 1:51 , Derrida , Mark 10:15 , Walt Whitman , Mark 10:32 , Sirach 9:15,16 , Mimi Klein

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

Love, tender feelings, and sexual satisfaction entail parasympathetic arousal—the physiological opposite of the “fight-orflight” mobilization shared by fear and anger. The parasympathetic pattern, dubbed the “relaxation response,” is a bodywide set of reactions that generates a general state of calm and contentment, facilitating cooperation.

• Daniel Goleman

sounds of a clear stream tumbling past,green bamboo harboring tower rooms
The day unfettered under a cool wind,

— Li Po 

All the activities that the body is to go through are determined when it first comes into existence. It does not rest with you to accept or reject them. The only freedom you have is to turn your mind inward and renounce activities there.

— Sri Ramana Maharshi

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

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

As much as you can, aim to know your neighbors,
    and consult with the wise.

— Sirach 9:14

Whence arise the highest mountains? I once asked. Then I learned they arise from the sea.

— Nietzsche/Zarathustra

Striking against the sea shore, waves recede, tired and worn out, seeking rest and peace. Likewise Jivas seek the supreme in various ways.

— Sri Atmananda

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

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

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

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

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

— John 1:51

their opening on the future, their dependency with respect to what will come, in short, all that ties knowledge and memory to the promise. …

– –  Derrida

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.

— Mark 10:15

We say to ourselves, 

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

• Walt Whitman

 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Yeshua  was walking ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid.

— Mark 10:32

Let your conversation be with men of understanding,
    and let all your discussion be about the law of the Most High.
 Let righteous men be your dinner companions,
    and let your glorying be in the fear of the Lord.

— Sirach 9:15,16

but the very song of(as mountains
feel and lovers)singing is silence

— ee cummings

I hear well, I hear it, for I still have an ear for the flame even if a cinder is silent, as if he burned paper at a distance, with a lens, a concentration of light as a result of seeing in order not to see, writing in the passion of nonknowledge rather than of the secret.

— Derrida

it was a time of reference. 

And it was a nice time

It as a time I enjoyed

— Mimi Klein 

2023 (#72) : Malaguzzi , Montessori , Sirach 7:19 , Jung , Emerson , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Derrida , Nietzsche , Sirach 6:35 , William Blake , John 4:34, 4:38 , Sirach 7:32-33 , John 4:26 , Paul Cohn, Jr.

We need to know how to recognize a new presence,
how to wait for the child.

• Malaguzzi

Instead of the instinct of possession, on this higher level we see three things : to know, to love and to serve.

• Montessori

Do not deprive yourself of a wise and good wife,
    for her charm is worth more than gold.

– – Sirach 7:19

Mercurious, the vegetative life-spirit; the third to the moon, the female, psychic principle 

– – Jung

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults over the moon.

– – Emerson  

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 

No doubt the fire has withdrawn, the conflagration has been subdued, but if cinder there is, it is because the fire remains in retreat. By its retreat it still feigns having abandoned the terrain. It still camouflages, it disguises itself, beneath the multiplicity, the dust, the makeup powder

– – Derrida

The earthquake reveals new springs. In the earthquake of ancient peoples new springs break forth.

—  Nietzsche/Zarathustra

Be ready to listen to every[a] narrative,
    and do not let wise proverbs escape you.

—  Sirach 6:35

Manifestation of the impossible truth on which it will have been necessary to decide once and for all, at every instant, and despite repetitions. The utterance thus betrays; it unveils what will have, one day, carried it away, between the divisions of all the voices or those into which the same voice divides itself.

– – Derrida

The Divine Vision still was seen

—  William Blake

Pure is the word. It calls for fire. There are cinders there, cinders there are, this is what takes place in letting a place occur, so that it will be understood

– – Derrida

My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. I am fed by doing the will of the one who sent me and by completing his work.

— John 4:34

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

I sent you to reap what you haven’t worked for. Others have done the hard labor, and you have benefited from their work. I sent you to harvest a crop that you did not work for. Others did the work, and you get the profit from their work.

– – John 4:38

Stretch forth your hand to the poor,
    so that your blessing may be complete.
33 Give graciously to all the living,
    and withhold not kindness from the dead.

– – Sirach 7:32-33

“I Am—the one who speaks with you.”

—  John 4:26

Hold on to the sense ‘I am’ to the exclusion of everything else. When this mind becomes completely silent, it shines with a new light and vibrates with new knowledge. It all comes spontaneously; you need only to hold on to the ‘I Am’.

– – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Faith is the word, which describes most accurately the quality of character 

– – Paul Cohn, Jr.

2023 (#71) : David Elkind , Malaguzzi , Mashal , Emerson , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Song of Solomon 2:12 , Derrida , John 21:4 , Mundaka Upanishad , John 4:7 , Song of Solomon 5:1 , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Joshua 3:7 , Jung , Bhagavad Gita , John 16:32 , Jung , William Blake , Mandookya Upanishad , Psalm 57 , John 17

Children learn through play, but their capacity for learning is limited by their
social situation, their emotional condition, and their physical and intellectual
development. Yet we best ensure a child’s healthy growth, whatever these conditions, by supporting and encouraging the child’s own self-initiated learning activities.

• David Elkind

An environment that grows out of
your relationship with the child is unique and fluid.

• Malaguzzi

Those who are kind benefit themselves,

• Proverbs/Mashal

 I confess to an extreme tenderness of nature on this point.

— Emerson

 Things and people are different, but they are not separate. Nature is one, reality is one. There is no opposition.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The flowers appear on the earth,
    the time of singing has come

— Song of Solomon 2:12

In the first place, a phoenix motif. Once again, the destruction
of life is only an appearance: it is the destruction of the appearance of life. One buries or burns what is already dead so that life, the living feminine, will be reborn and regenerated from these ashes. 

— Derrida

Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to whom to happen, a conscious separate centre. But reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical.

—  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Just as the day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know it was Jesus.

—  John 21:4

‘As rivers lose name and shape in the sea, wise men lose name and shape in God, glittering beyond all distance.

— Mundaka Upanishad Book 3

Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink”. 

—  John 4:7

Eat, O friends, and drink:
    drink deeply, O lovers!

—  Song of Solomon 5:1

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

—  Sri Ramana Maharshi

This day I will begin to magnify you

— Joshua 3:7

Your voice, the rarest pleasing sound, will be heard amid the stammerings of wretches, rejects, and those condemned as worthless.

— Jung

Whenever and wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders, one should bring it back and continually focus it on God.

—  Bhagavad Gita

 I am not alone, for my Father is with me.

— John 16:32

I eat my honeycomb with my honey

—  Song of Solomon 5:1

You can observe the observation, but not the observer. 

—  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 

I slept, but my heart was awake.

— Song of Solomon 5:2

Take pains to waken the dead. Dig deep mines and throw in sacrificial gifts, so that they reach the dead. 

—  Jung

Thus they converse with the Dead, watching round the 

      Couch of Death

— William Blake 

 inspiration of sacrifice! May our ears hear the good. May our eyes see the good. May we serve Him with the whole strength of our body. May we, all our life, carry out His will.

Peace, peace, and peace be everywhere.

—  Mandookya Upanishad

God who fulfills his purpose for me 

– Psalm 57

25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[e] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

—  John 17:25-26

The ‘I’-thought will be found to be the root-cause. Go deeper. The ‘I’-thought disappears and there is an infinitely expanded ‘I’-consciousness.

— Sri Ramana Maharshi