2023 (#123) : Malaguzzi , James Hillman , Bereshit , Jeremiah , Gospel of Mark , Nietzsche , Brihadranaranyaka Upanishad , Amy Lowell , Gospel of Judas , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Derrida , Gretchen Goldstein

All of this is a great forest. Inside the forest is the
child.

—- Malaguzzi

The Neoplatonists referred to an imaginal body, the ochema, that carried you like a vehicle.  It was your personal bearer or support. 

—- James Hillman 

“and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

—- Bereshit / Genesis

I will take good care of you

—–Jeremiah 

“Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts.

—- Mark

There is no such substratum: there is no “being” behind doing, effecting, becoming; “the doer” is merely a fiction added to the deed—the deed is everything.

—- Nietzsche 

9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd.

—- Genesis / Bereshit

The call to an individual destiny is not an issue between faithless science and unscientific faith. Individuality remains an issue for psychology—a psychology that holds in mind its prefix, “psyche,” and its premise, soul, so that its mind can espouse its faith without institutional Religion and practice its careful observation of phenomena without institutionalized Science.

—- James Hillman 

When Herod heard John, he was greatly puzzled[c]; yet he liked to listen to him.

—- Mark

Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful.

—– Genesis / Besreshit 

The fictitious world of subject, substance, “reason,” etc., is
needed-: there is in us a power to order, simplify, falsify, artificially distinguish. 

—- Nietzsche

 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

—- Mark

 it sure is easy to die. A split second of inattention and the best-laid plans of a strong ego spill out on the sidewalk. Something saves me every day from falling down the stairs, tripping at the curb, being blindsided.

—- James Hillman 

go wherever you think it right to go

—- Jeremiah 

“Truth” is the will to be master over the
multiplicity of sensations:-to classify phenomena into definite
categories. In this we start from a belief in the “in-itself” of things (we take phenomena as real).

—- Nietzsche

Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. 46 After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray.

—- Mark

Om. The head of the sacrificial horse is the dawn, its eye the sun, its vital force the air

—- Brihadranaranyaka Upanishad 

What is this “immune system” that watches over my days, my food sprinkled with viruses, toxins, bacteria?

—– James Hillman 

Do not be afraid

—- Jeremiah 

He saw the disciples straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he went out to them, walking on the lake

—- Mark

Continual transition forbids us to speak of “individuals,” etc;
the “number” of beings is itself in flux.

—- Nietzsche 

Purple and blue flags waded in the water; 

In among them hopped the speckled frogs; 

The wind slid through them, rustling.

—–  Amy Lowell 

 its feet the days and nights, its bones the stars and its flesh the clouds. Its half-digested food is the sand, its blood-vessels the rivers, its liver and spleen the mountains, its hairs the herbs and trees.

—- Brihadranaranyaka Upanishad 

When Yeshua came to live upon the earth he did dynamic miracles and wonders for the salvation of the peopled world.

—- Gospel of Judas

Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

Love in general passes by way of the love of language,  demands testimonials— and trials. You don’t just go and do anything with language; it preexists us and it survives us. “When you introduce something into language, you have to do it in a refined manner, by respecting through disrespect its secret law. 

—- Derrida

It is a miracle

—- Gretchen Goldstein (10/9/2000)

2023 (#122) : Malaguzzi , Montessori , James Hillman , Jeremiah , Emerson , Gospel of John , Derrida , Heidegger , Amy Lowell , Gospel of Mary , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Nietzsche , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Alan Mazer

The child wants to know that she is observed, carefully, with full attention. The child wants to be
observed in action. She wants the teacher to see the
process of her work, rather than the product.

—- Malaguzzi

IT is necessary from the very beginning to have an
idea of what we intend by an education for life that
starts from birth and even before birth. It is necessary
to go into detail about this question

—– Montessori 

The soul of each of us is given a unique daimon before we are born, and it has selected an image or pattern that we live on earth. This soulcompanion, the daimon, guides us here; in the process of arrival, however, we forget all that took place and believe we come empty into this world. The daimon remembers what is in your image and belongs to your pattern, and therefore your daimon is the carrier of your destiny.

—- James Hillman 

Take him, look after him well, and do him no harm, but deal with him as he may ask you.

—-Jeremiah 

Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works and will travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers. In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the center of the world, where, as in the closet of God, we see causes, and anticipate the universe, which is but a slow effect.

—- Emerson

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.”[a]

—- John

…ecstasy between the inside and the outside, of house and country, of source and mouth, of river and our Mediterranean, on this shore of introjection and incorporation…

—– Derrida 

came and sat in the middle gate

—- Jeremiah 

the myth has a redemptive psychological function, and a psychology derived from it can inspire a life founded on it.

—- James Hillman 

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

—- Emerson

All our heart’s courage is the echoing response to the first call of Being which gathers our thinking into the play of the world.

—- Heidegger

they shall be accomplished in your presence on that day

—- Jeremiah 

The myth leads also to practical moves. The most practical is to entertain the ideas implied by the myth in viewing your biography— ideas of calling, of soul, of daimon, of fate, of necessity.

—- James Hillman 

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.

—- Emerson 

The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

—– John 

we must attend very carefully to childhood to catch early glimpses of the daimon in action, to grasp its intentions and not block its way. The rest of the practical implications swiftly unfold: (a) Recognize the call as a prime fact of human existence; (b) align life with it; (c) find the common sense to realize that accidents, including the heartache and the natural shocks the flesh is heir to, belong to the pattern of the image, are necessary to it, and help fulfill it.

—– James Hillman 

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.

—- Emerson

The orange candle flame leaped in the yellow ambers, 

And made the jades undulate like green pools. 

It played along the bright ebony, 

And glowed in the top of cream-coloured ivory.

—– Amy Lowell

And the face, too; its complexion and features form a single expression, a singular image, given all at once. So, too, the image in the acorn. You are born with a character; it is given; a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth.

—- James Hillman 

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, work and live, and all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition, and the question and the answer are one.

—- Emerson

After the soul said this, she left, intensely happy

—- Gospel Of Mary

The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there. God is all that is great and wonderful; I am nothing, have nothing, can do nothing.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

The “inner world” is full of phantoms … : the will is one of
them. The will no longer moves anything, hence does not
explain anything either — it merely accompanies events;
it can also be absent. The so-called motive: another error.
Merely a surface phenomenon of consciousness some –
thing alongside the deed that is more likely to cover up
the antecedents of the deeds than to represent them. …
What follows from this? There are no mental [geistigen]
causes at all.

—- Nietzsche

Abhyasa [spiritual practice] consists in withdrawal within God (the Self/Atman) every time you are disturbed by thought. It is not concentration or destruction of the mind but withdrawal into God (the Self/Atman).

You need not eliminate the wrong ‘I’. How can ‘I’ eliminate itself? All that you need do is to find out its origin and abide there. Your efforts can extend only thus far. Then the beyond will take care of itself. You are helpless there. No effort can reach it.

—- Sri Ramana Maharshi

I do know and appreciate how truly blessed I am

—- Alan Mazer (10/9/2000)

2023 (#121) : Malaguzzi , Montessori , James Hillman , Emerson , Jeremiah , Nietzsche , Derrida , Amy Lowell , Rig Veda , Gospel Of Mary , Gospel of Mark , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Mike Shmerling

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

—- Malaguzzi

Our work is not to teach, but to help the absorbent
mind in its work of development. How marvellous it
would be if by our help, if by an intelligent treatment
of the child, if by understanding the needs of his physical
life and by feeding his intellect, we could prolong the
period of functioning of the absorbent mind !

—- Montessori

showing what else was there, is there, in your nature. It wants to resurrect the unaccountable twists that turned your boat around in the eddies and shallows of meaninglessness, bringing you back to feelings of destiny. For that is what is lost in so many lives, and what must be recovered: a sense of personal calling, that there is a reason I am alive.

— James Hillman 

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a music perfection, the ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam. Do but observe the mode of our illumination.

— Emerson

make a proclamation of liberty

— Jeremiah 

Life itself wants to build itself into the heights with pillars and steps; it  wants to gaze into vast distances and out upon halcyon beauties—therefore  it needs height! And because it needs height, it needs steps and contradiction between steps and climbers! Life wants to climb and to overcome itself by climbing.

—– Nietzsche 

proclaiming liberty to one another

—- Jeremiah 

there is a reason my unique person is here and that there are things I must attend to beyond the daily round and that give the daily round its reason, feelings that the world somehow wants me to be here, that I am answerable to an innate image, which I am filling out in my biography.

—- James Hillman 

Take a scroll and write on it

—– Jeremiah

I live my death in writing. It’s the ultimate test: one expropriates oneself without knowing exactly who is being entrusted with what is left behind. Who is going to inherit, and how?

—- Derrida

 ink on the scroll

—- Jeremiah 

Reading backward means that growth is less the key biographical term than form, and that development only makes sense when it reveals a facet of the original image.

—- James Hillman 

Now the king was sitting in his winter apartment (it was the ninth month), and there was a fire burning in the brazier before him.

— Jeremiah 

It’s all there at once. When you look at a face before you, at a scene out your window or a painting on the wall, you see a whole gestalt. All the parts present themselves simultaneously.

—- James Hillman 

Sifted through the grass were daisies, 

Open-mouthed, wondering, they gazed at the sun.

—- Amy Lowell 

In the middle of body there exists the Sushumna Nadi which is as bright as the sun and as cool as the moon.

—- Rig Vedas

I shall reveal to you.

—- Gospel of Mary

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

—– Gospel of Mark 

All ideas of self-improvement is conventional and verbal. As long as we imagine ourselves to be separate personalities, one quite apart from another, we cannot grasp reality which is essentially impersonal. First we must know ourselves as witnesses only, dimensionless and timeless centres of observation, and then realize that immense ocean of pure awareness, which is both mind and matter and beyond both.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

“Its ways are ways of pleasantness and all its paths are peace.”

—- Mike Shmerling (8/9/2000)

2023 (#120) : Malaguzzi , Montessori , Emerson , Jeremiah , Nietzsche , Amy Lowell , Tao Te Ching , Gospel of Mark , Gospel of Mary , Advaya Taraka Upanishad , Annette Ratkin

We need to produce
situations in which children learn by themselves, in
which children can take advantage of their own
knowledge and resources autonomously, and in
which we guarantee the intervention of the adult as
little as possible.

—- Malaguzzi

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

—– Montessori

 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

Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured

—- Jeremiah 

celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

—- Nietzsche

The miracle of life which will not be expounded but will remain a miracle, introduces a new element. 

—- Emerson

Sweeping, wide-winged, through the blue dome of light. 

Everything mortal has moments immortal, 

Swift and God-gifted, immeasurably bright.

—- Amy Lowell

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

—- Tao Te Ching

So with the stretch of the white road before me, 

Shining snowcrystals rainbowed by the sun, 

Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows, 

Strong with the strength of my horse as we run. 

Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight! 

Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

—– Amy Lowell

30 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 simplest person who in his integrity worships God becomes God; yet forever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. 

—- Emerson

His grace will go with you and protect you.

— Gospel of Mary

I will restore their fortunes 

— Jeremiah 

 neighbors to eagles,  neighbors to snow, neighbors to the sun: thus live strong winds

—- Nietzsche

Om ! Let there be Peace in me ! Let there be Peace in my environment ! Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !

—- Advaya Taraka Upanishad 

Yes, our children have helped us to return.

—- Annette Ratkin (8/11/97) 

2023 (#119) : Malaguzzi , Nietzsche , Amy Lowell , Jeremiah , Gospel Of Mark , Holderlin , Mandookya Upanishad , Gospel Of Mary , Atma-Bodha Upanishad , Dr. Bruce Hirsch

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

the sun of his knowledge will stand at high noon for him.

—- Nietzsche

Trumpeted at the blue sky.
In long streaks of sound, molten metal,
The vine declares itself.

—– Amy Lowell

 the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord

—- Jeremiah 

While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

—-  Gospel of Mark

Since her arm out of the dust has raised me,
Beats my heart so boldly and serene;
And my cheek still tingles with her kisses,
Flushed and glowing where her lips have been.

—-  Holderlin

She has done a beautiful thing to me. 

—– Gospel Of Mark

Verily, the earth shall yet become a site of recovery. And even now a new fragrance surrounds it, bringing salvation—and a new hope.

—- Nietzsche

Under the gold crucifixes
There is a meeting of hands
Reaching from black mantles.
Sighing embraces, bold investigations,

—- Amy Lowell

In the towns of the hill country

—– Jeremiah 

There are a thousand paths that have never yet been trodden—a thousand healths and hidden isles of life. Even now, man and man’s earth are unexhausted and undiscovered.

—- Nietzsche

It winds along the face of a cliff
This path which I long to explore,
And over it dashes a waterfall,
And the air is full of the roar
And the thunderous voice of waters which sweep
In a silver torrent over some steep.

—- Amy Lowell

 flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them,

—– Jeremiah 

From the future come winds with secret wing-beats; and good tidings are proclaimed to delicate ears.

—– Nietzsche

And the trees and the bushes which grow in the rocks
Are wet with its jewelled spray;
The air is misty and heavy with sound

— Amy Lowell

In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up

—– Jeremiah 

The only proof of His existence is union with Him. The world disappears in Him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second.

—- Mandookya Upanishad

Look here, look there.’ The human child is in you. Follow the child. If you look you will find it. Go preach the message of good news about the kingdom. Don’t make any rules other than what I have given you.

—– Gospel of Mary

I am without three qualities, all worlds exists in my belly; the changeless consciousness, beyond reason and action, I have no parts, unborn, pure reality.

—-  Atma-Bodha Upanishad 

I truly believe that this will be time well spent.

—- Dr. Bruce Hirsch (8/11/97)

2023 (#118) : Montessori , Malaguzzi , Heidegger, Gospel of Thomas , Jeremiah , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Mandookya Upanishad , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Gospel of Mark , William Carlos Williams , Derrida , Dr. Bonnie Miller

What a
service we should render if we could help the human
individual to absorb knowledge without fatigue, if man
could find himself full of knowledge without knowing how
he had acquired it, doing it almost by magic. And why
should it not be possible ? Is not nature full of magic, full
of miracles?

—- Montessori

Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.

—- Malaguzzi

To acknowledge and respect consists in
letting every thinker’s thought come to us as something in
each case unique, never to be repeated, inexhaustible–and
being shaken to the depths by what is unthought in his
thought. 

—- Heidegger

Come to me, for my yoke is easy and my mastery gentle, and you will find rest for yourselves.

——- Gospel of Thomas

hear of all the good that I do for them

—- Jeremiah

 The false ‘I’ will disappear and the real ‘I’ will be realized.

—– Sri Ramana Maharshi

 When the bridegroom leaves the wedding chamber, then let the people fast and pray.

—- Gospel of Thomas

 I will heal them and reveal to them abundance, of prosperity and security.

—– Jeremiah

He is not knowable by perception, turned inward or outward, nor by both combined. He is neither that which is known, nor that which is not known, nor is He the sum of all that might be known. He cannot be seen, grasped, bargained with. He is undefinable, unthinkable, indescribable.

—– Mandookya Upanishad

When you make two into one, you will become human children. When you say, “Mountain, move,” the mountain will move.

—– Gospel of Thomas

No thing in existence has a particular cause; the entire universe contributes to the existence of even the smallest thing; nothing could be as it is without the universe being what it is.

—– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me. I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to that one.

—- Gospel of Thomas

 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

—- Mark

pushing forward— they coalesce now

glass-smooth with their swiftness,

quiet or seem to quiet as at the close

they leap to the conclusion and

fall, fall in air! as if

floating, relieved of their weight,

—- William Carlos Williams 

The Father’s kingdom is spread out upon the earth and people do not see it.

—- Gospel of Thomas 

you do not know to whom you are speaking, you invent and create silhouettes, but in the end it no longer belongs to you. Spoken or written, all these gestures leave us and begin to act independently of us.

—- Derrida 

Full and red, taking their turn in mid-spring

—- Dr. Bonnie Miller (8/11/97)

2023 (#117) : Sri Ramana Maharshi , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Jung , Taittireeya-Upanishad , Nietzsche , Jung , Winnicott , Jeremiah , Mark , The Gospel of Mary , William Carlos Williams , Dr. Bonnie Miller

There is no beginning and no end. You are yourself in the beginning and the end. 

—– Sri Ramana Maharshi

I am the other person, the other person is myself; in name and shape we are different, but there is no separation. At the root of our being we are one.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

the wonderful water of the Euphrates has the property of the aqua doctrinae, which perfects every nature in its individuality and thus makes man whole too. It does this by giving him a kind of magnetic power by which he can attract and integrate that which belongs to him.

—-  Jung

God lives in the hollow of the heart, filling it with immortality, light, intelligence.

—– Taittireeya-Upanishad

To esteem is to create

—- Nietzsche 

The serpent is an equivalent of the fish. The consensus of opinion interpreted the Redeemer equally as a fish and a serpent; he is a fish because he rose from the unknown depths, and a serpent because he came mysteriously out of the darkness. 

—-  Jung

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.

—- D.W. Winnicott

Insatiably your soul strives for treasures and gems, because your virtue is insatiable in wanting to give.

—- Nietzsche 

 I will heal them and reveal to them abundance, of prosperity and security.

—– Jeremiah 

While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”

—– Mark

The comparison of Christ with the serpent is more authentic than that with the fish, but, for all that, it was not so popular in primitive Christianity. The Gnostics favoured it because it was an old-established symbol for the “good” genius loci, the Agathodaimon, and also for their beloved Nous. 

—–  Jung

If you despair, stand up and gaze ahead before nature’s diversity of forms. Whoever has ears to hear should hear.

—– The Gospel of Mary 

from mathematics to particulars

divided as the dew, 

floating mists, to be rained down and 

regathered into a river that flows and encircles

—- William Carlos Williams 

There were strawberries as well

—- Dr. Bonnie Miller

2023 (#116) : Malaguzzi , Atma-Bodha Upanishad , Jung , Gospel of Mary , Nietzsche , Numbers , Taittireeya-Upanishad , John , Dr. Bonnie Miller

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

The Brahmapura is a lotus, shining like lightning and lamp.  

—- Atma-Bodha Upanishad

The healing and renewing properties of symbolical water—whether it be tao, the baptismal water, or the elixir 

—- Jung

“Each nature and shaped thing and every creature lives in and with each other, and will dissolve into distinctive roots, and the nature of matter will dissolve into the root of nature. Whoever has ears to hear should hear.”

—- The Gospel of Mary

The noncanonical fish symbol led us into this psychic matrix and thus into a realm of experience where the unknowable archetypes become living things, changing their name and guise in never-ending succession and, as it were, disclosing their hidden nucleus by perpetually circumambulating round it.

—– Jung

Verily, a new deep murmur and the voice of a new well!

—- Nietzsche

For this reason the ancients often compared the symbol to water, a case in point being tao, where yang and yin are united.Tao is the “valley spirit,” the winding course of a river. 

—– Jung

When your heart flows broad and full like a river

—- Nietzsche 

‘Y’varekh’kha Adonai v’yishmerekha.
[May Adonai bless you and keep you.]

—- Numbers

Watch for every hour, my brothers, in which your spirit wants to speak in parables: there lies the origin of your virtue.

—- Nietzsche

The Maya has gone away from me, I am the pure vision; my ego has gone down, so has the difference between world, god and soul. I am the inner-self, without positive and negative rules

—- Atma-Bodha Upanishad 

they may flow back out of your well as the gifts of your love.

—- Nietzsche

In Spirit, he attains heaven, conquers his mind ; becomes master of speech, sight, hearing, knowledge.

—- Taittireeya-Upanishad

I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me.
I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.
I came from God [out of His very presence] and have arrived here. For I have not even come on My own initiative [as self-appointed], but He [is the One who] sent Me.
I came from God. Here I am. I haven’t come on my own. God sent me.
I came out from God; and now I have arrived here. I did not come on my own; he sent me.
I came from God and only from him. He sent me. I did not come on my own.
I came from God and proceeded into the world. I did not come of My own authority, but He sent Me.

—- John 8:42

When you are above praise and blame

—- Nietzsche 

 I am the expansive Bliss; I am the witness, independent, exerting in my greatness; without old age and decay, opposing sides, pure knowledge, the ocean of liberation; I am subtle without any attributes.

—- Atma-Bodha Upanishad 

a marble shooting wizard

—- Dr. Bonnie Miller (8/11/97)

2023 (#115) : Jung , Nietzsche , Numbers , Aksha Malika Upanishad , Jeremiah , John , Dr. Bonnie Miller

Warm-blooded or cold-blooded vertebrates of all kinds, or even invertebrates, thus indicate the degree of unconsciousness.

— Jung

His disciples gave him as a farewell present a staff with a golden handle on which a serpent coiled around the sun. Zarathustra was delighted with the staff and learned on it.

—- Nietzsche

it was hammered gold from its base to its flowers

—  Numbers

Then getting up, placing it (on flowers) circumambulating utter the following incantation: “Om, Oh goddess, salutations, mother of all mantras of the forms of letters, rosary of beads; He who attracts everyone, Salutations !

—- Aksha Malika Upanishad

he who appoints the sun

    to shine by day,
who decrees the moon and stars
    to shine by night,
who stirs up the sea
    so that its waves roar

—-  Jeremiah

Golden splendor makes peace between moon and sun.

—- Nietzsche 

The snake does in fact symbolize “cold-blooded,”inhuman contents and tendencies of an abstractly intellectual as well as a concretely animal nature: in a word, the extra-human quality in man.

 — Jung

What would you have in common with cats and wolves?

—- Nietzsche 

: the ray of light from above mingles with the dark waters below in the form of a minute spark. At the death of the individual, and also at his figurative death as a mystical experience, the two substances unmix themselves.

—- Jung

you thirst to pile up all the riches in your soul.

—- Nietzsche

on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate

—-  Jeremiah

During this operation the helpful Mercurius appears with the dividing sword (used also by the adept!), which the Sethians refer to Matthew 10 : 34: “I came not to send peace, but a sword.” 

—– Jung

Insatiably your soul strives for treasures and gems, because your virtue is insatiable in wanting to give.

—- Nietzsche 

The result of the unmixing is that what was previously mixed up with the “other” is now drawn to “its own place” and to that which is “proper” or “akin” to it, “like iron to the magnet”

—- Jung

they may flow back out of your well as the gifts of your love.

—- Nietzsche 

streams of living water will flow from within him

—- John 7:37

Salutations ! Salutations to you of the nature of all Tattvas, all knowledge, of the nature of all powers, of the nature of all good,

—-  Aksha Malika Upanishad

the brilliant peonies

—- Dr. Bonnie Miller (8/11/97)

2023 (#114) : Montessori , Dogen , Jeremiah , Aitareya Upanishad , Jung , Gospel Of Thomas , Numbers , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Shankara , Derrida , Song Of Solomon , Mark , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Emerson , Derrida , Dr. Bonnie Miller

The child stands in a different relationship
to the environment. We may admire an environment.
We may remember an environment, but the child absorbs
it into himself. He does not remember the things that he
sees, but he forms with these things part of his psyche.
He incarnates in himself the things which he sees and
hears i.e., in us there is no change, in the child transfor-
mations take place. We merely remember an environment
while the child adapts himself to it. This special kind of
vital memory, that does not remember consciously, but
absorbs images into the very life of the individual has
received from the psychologists a special name : they
have called it Mneme.

—- Montessori

 As overwhelming is caused by you, there is no overwhelming that is separate from you. Thus you go out and meet someone. Someone meets someone. You meet yourself. Going out meets going out. If these are not the actualization of time, they cannot be thus.

—- Dogen

   I will give them comfort and joy

—– Jeremiah

Having split up this very end, He entered through this door. This entrance is known as vidriti (the chief entrance). Hence it is delightful. Of Him there are three abodes – three (states of) dream. This one is an abode, this one is an abode. This one is an abode.

—– Aitareya Upanishad

Like the fish, it represents and personifies the dark and unfathomable, the watery deep, the forest, the night, the cave.

—– Jung

Yeshua says, The messengers and the prophets will come to you and give you what is yours. You give them what you have and wonder, “When will they come and take what is theirs?”

—– Gospel Of Thomas

Set up road signs;
    put up guideposts.
Take note of the highway,
    the road that you take.

—– Jeremiah

We will go along the King’s Highway

—– Numbers

Being a totality, it must by definition include the light and dark aspects,in the same way that the self embraces both masculine and feminine and is therefore symbolized by the marriage quaternio.

—– Jung

The internal thread must be thought of as Brahma (the Supreme Being). The right side silver cap must be considered to be the place of Shiva and Copper caps belonging to Vishnu.

—– Aitareya Upanishad

the one who made the inside also made the outside.

—– Gospel Of Thomas

The Lord will create a new thing on earth—
    the woman will return to[b] the man.

—— Jeremiah

The face must be thought of as Sarasvati and the tail as Gayatri. The hole is Knowledge.

—– Aitareya Upanishad

Yeshua says, Come to me, for my yoke is easy and my mastery gentle, and you will find rest for yourselves.

——- Gospel Of Thomas

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

—– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

 the offspring of people and of animals

—– Jeremiah

 When the bridegroom leaves the wedding chamber, then let the people fast and pray.

—— Gospel Of Thomas

I am of the innate nature that is ever liberated.

—- Shankara

 I will watch over them to build and to plant,

—– Jeremiah

Repetition and first time: this is perhaps the question of the event
as question of the ghost. What is a ghost? 

—- Derrida

Thy two breasts are like two
young roes that are twins.

—- Song of Solomon 4:5

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body.

—- Mark

Where is ‘coming’ or ‘going’ or any movement whatever, for the one, all-pervading spirit which you really are? You are where you have always been. It is your body that moved or was conveyed from place to place.

—- Sri Ramana Maharshi

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

—- Emerson

If I had invented my writing, I would have done so as a perpetual revolution. For it is necessary in each situation to create an appropriate mode of exposition, to invent the law of the singular event, to take into account the presumed or desired addressee; and, at the same time, to make as if this writing will determine the reader, who will learn to read (to “live”) something he or she was not accustomed to receiving from anywhere else. One hopes that he or she will be reborn differently, determined otherwise, as a result: for example, these grafts of poetry onto philosophy, which are anything but confused, or certain ways of using homonyms, the undecidable, or the ruses of language, which many read in confusion because they fail to recognize their properly logical necessity. Each book is a pedagogy aimed at forming its reader.

— Derrida 

a farm for his horses

—- Dr. Bonnie Miller