2023 (#149) : Montessori , Emerson , James Hillman , I Ching , Yeats , Eric Neumann , Gospel of Mathew , Vimalakirti Sutra , Book of Samuel , Winnicott , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , D.T. Suzuki

 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. We have
called his type of mind * Absorbent Mind.

—- Montessori

This sentiment is divine and deifying. It is the beatitude of man. It makes him illimitable. Through it, the soul first knows itself.

—- Emerson

the call may have been more like gentle pushings in the stream in which you drifted unknowingly to a particular spot on the bank. Looking back, you sense that fate had a hand in it

— James Hillman 

the ground water stored up in the earth
Good fortune without blame

—- I Ching

Seek those images 

That constitute the wild, 

The lion and the virgin, 

The harlot and the child.

—- Yeats

The dynamic movement within this Great Round belongs to the transformative character of the Feminine, but in this first phase does not yet assume a form and shape of its own. It merely creates change within the circular snake of the uroboros

—- Eric Neumann

 “Have you understood all these things?” 

—- Mathew

You associate with living beings by frequenting their migrations.

—- Vimalakirti Sutra

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. 

—- James Hillman 

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown ..

—- Emerson

There’s better exercise 

In the sunlight and wind.

—- Yeats

for the uroboros of the be- ginning is not only the Round but also the wheel rolling upon itself and the serpent which at once bears, begets, and devours

.—- Eric Neumann

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 

this discipline must not be achieved by force. It requires a strong man who captures the hearts of the people and awakens their enthusiasm.

—- I Ching

Just as the lotus, born of mud, is not tainted thereby,

—- – Vimalakirti Sutra

Picture and book remain, 

An acre of green grass 

For air and exercise

—- Yeats 

came to a forest where there was a honeycomb on the ground.

—- 1 Samuel

After childbirth the woman’s third blood mystery occurs: the transformation of blood into milk, which is the foundation for the primordial mysteries of food transformation.

—- Eric Neumann

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, 

—- James Hillman 

When the people had entered the forest, they saw there the honeycomb with honey dripping out;

—- 1 Samuel

Though doubtless plum or cherry-branch 

Sweetens the little half-way house

—- Yeats

preserves the realization of voidness

—-  Vimalakirti Sutra

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it, and had his being there. Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

—- Emerson

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 

One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.

—- Emerson

he put out the end of the staff in his hand, dipped it in the honeycomb and raised it to his mouth; whereupon his eyes lit up.

—- 1 Samuel

 He said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, ‘I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, speaks. Would you see God, see me; or see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think.’

—- Emerson

I bow to you, who stand nowhere, like infinite space

—-  Vimalakirti Sutra

Gabrielle [now aged two and three quarters] put the two big soft animals
together and said: “They are together and are fond of each other.’ She was
also joining two carriages of a train.”
 “And they are making babies.”
Gabrielle: “No, they are making friends.”

—- Winnicott

Some forget, some do not, according to their destinies, which you may call chance, if you prefer.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

should one wish to build in empty space, one might go ahead in spite of the fact that it is not possible to build or to adorn anything in empty space.

—-  Vimalakirti Sutra

I have all kinds of impulses which are not always under my con-
trol. Some impulses carry me away in spite of myself. As long
as we are living in this limited world, we can never talk about
being free or doing as we desire. Even this desire is something
which is not our own.

—- D.T. Suzuki

2023 (#148) : Montessori , Emerson , Eric Neumann , Gospel of Mathew , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Book of Samuel , Yeats , Jung , James Hillman , Bhagavad Gita , Derrida , Nietzsche

It is not the professor who
applies psychology to children, it is the children them-
selves who teach psychology to the professor. The child has a type of mind that absorbs knowledge and instructs himself.

—- Montessori

One is constrained to respect the perfection of this world in which our senses converse. How wide; how rich; what invitation from every property it gives to every faculty of man! In its fruitful soils; in its navi, gable sea; in its mountains of metal and stone; in its forests of all woods; in its animals; in its chemical ingredients; in the powers and path of light, heat, attraction and life, it is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.

—– Emerson

As elementary character we designate the aspect of the Feminine that as the Great Round, the Great Container, tends to hold fast to everything that springs from it and to surround it like an eternal substance.

—- Eric Neumann

Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake.

—- Mathew

Nothing you do will change you, for you need no change. 

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman  

the Spirit of God fell on him too; and he went on,

—- 1 Samuel

You may change your mind or your body, but it is always something external to you that has changed, not yourself.

—– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman

That passion could bring character enough, 

And pressed at midnight in some public place 

Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.

—- Yeats

Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays. And under them stands a young child, and his huge globe a toy. The cool night bathes the world as with a river, and prepares his eyes again for the crimson dawn. The mystery of nature was never displayed more happily.

—- Emerson

Everything born of it belongs to it and remains subject to it; and even if the individual becomes independent, the Archetypal Femi- nine relativizes this independence into a nonessential variant of her own perpetual being.

—- Eric Neumann

it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life. The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers. The air is full of birds, and sweet with the breath of the pine

—- Emerson

“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

• Mathew

realize once for all that neither your body nor your mind, nor even your consciousness is yourself and stand alone in your true nature beyond consciousness and unconsciousness.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman

He also stripped off his clothes

—- 1 Samuel

 “tell me to come to you on the water.”

—- Mathew

Find in middle air 

An eagle on the wing,

—- Yeats

Your father knows very well that you have made me your friend.

—- 1 Samuel

Behold these infinite relations, So’ like, so unlike; many, yet one. I would study, I would know, I would admire forever. These works of thought have been the entertainments of the human spirit in all ages. 

—- Emerson

we must perforce consider first the myths of the Near and Middle East that underlie Christianity … the motive force that produces these configurations cannot be distinguished from the transconscious factor known as instinct.

—-Jung

One image crossed the many-headed, sat 

Under the tropic shade, grew round and slow

—- Yeats

That innate image can’t be found. however, until we have a psychological theory that grants primary psychological reality to the call of fate.

—– James Hillman

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

Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish.

—- Mathew

To be just: beyond the living present in general-and beyond its simple negative reversal. A spectral moment, a moment that no longer belongs to time

—- Derrida

We would know nothing
of time and motion if we did not, in a coarse fashion, believe we
see what is at “rest” beside what is in motion.

—- Nietzsche 

Accordingly our four double pyramids would arrange themselves in a circle and form the well-known uroboros.

—–Jung

Mirror on mirror mirrored is all the show. 

When gong and conch declare the hour to bless

—- Yeats

Wonderful is its power to charm and to command. It is a mountain air. It is the embalmer of the world. It is rrlyrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary. It makes the sky and the hills sublime, and the silent song of the stars is it.

—– Emerson

2023 (#147) : Malaguzzi , Eric Neumann , Deleuze , Book of Samuel , Gospel of Mathew , Chandogya Upanishad , Yeats , Vimalakirti Sutra , Nietzsche

As we have chosen to work with children we can say that they are the best evaluators and the most sensitive judges of the values of creativity. 

—- Malaguzzi

The uroboros, the circular snake biting its tail, is the symbol of the psychic state of the beginning, of the original situation, in which man’s con- sciousness and ego were still small and undeveloped.

—- Eric Neumann

The player-artist-child, Zeus-child:
Dionysus, who the myth presents to us surrounded by bis divine toys.

—- Deleuze

 He had a bronze helmet on his head

—- 1 Samuel

he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.

—– Mathew

I go to the Spirit of the Heavens: by his grace, by his grace, by his grace.

—– Chandogya Upanishad

She thinks, part woman, three parts a child, 

That nobody looks; her feet 

Practise a tinker shuffle

—- Yeats

Poised in equanimity, your mind is like the sky. 

Who would not honor such a precious jewel of a being? 

—- Vimalakirti Sutra

As symbol of the origin and of the opposites contained in it, the uroboros is the “Great Round,” in which positive and negative, male and female, elements of consciousness, elements hostile to consciousness, and unconscious elements arc intermingled.

—- Eric Neumann

This comes about because they have the privilege of not being excessively attached to their own ideas, which they construct and reinvent continuously. 

—- Malaguzzi

The player temporarily abandons himself to life and temporarily fixes
his gaze upon it; the artist places himself provisionally in his work and
provisionally above it; the child plays, withdraws from the game and
returns to it.

—- Deleuze

singing and dancing joyfully with tambourines and three-stringed instruments.

—- 1 Samuel

“They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”

—- Mathew

That girls at puberty may find 

The first Adam in their thought

—– Yeats

Although the Lord speaks with but one voice, 

Those present perceive that same voice differently, 

And each understands in his own language according to his own needs. 

—- Vimalakirti Sutra

. They are apt to explore, make discoveries, change their points of view, and fall in love with forms and meanings that transform themselves.

—- Malaguzzi

In this sense the uroboros is also a symbol of
a state in which chaos, the unconscious, and the psyche as a whole were undifferentiated

—- Eric Neumann 

In this game of becoming, the being of becoming also
plays the game with itself; the aeon (time), says Heraclitus, is a child
who plays, plays at draughts. The being of becoming, the
eternal return, is the second moment of the game, but also the third
term, identical to the two moments and valid for the whole.

—- Delueze

Later that night, he was there alone,  and the boat was already a considerable distance from land

—- Gospel of Mathew

Look, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants like you

—- 1 Samuel

Her mind moves upon silence

—- Yeats

Who fully manifests the special qualities!

—- Vimalakirti Sutra

Art as the will to overcome becoming, as “eternalization,” but
shortsighted, depending on the perspective: repeating in miniature, as
it were, the tendency of the whole.

—- Nietzsche

2023 (#146) : Malaguzzi , Book of Samuel , Gospel of John , Eric Neumann , Yeats , Vimalakirti Sutra , Gospel of Mathew , Bhagavad Gita , Nietzsche , Derrida

Our goal is to make an amiable school – that is, a school that is active, inventive, liveable, documentable and communicative.

—- Malaguzzi 

 “Go on ahead of me, and I’ll come along after you.” 

—- 1 Samuel

Whoever believes in me doesn’t believe in me but in the one who sent me.

—- Gospel of John

The symbolic imagery of the unconscious is the creative source of the human spirit in all its realizations

—- Eric Neumann

Those masterful images because complete 

Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?

—- Yeats

All these things arise dependently, from causes, 

Yet they are neither existent nor nonexistent. 

Therein is neither ego, nor experiencer, nor doer,

—-  Vimalakirti Sutra

Our goal is to make a school that is a place of research, learning, revisiting, reconsideration, and reflection. 

—– Malaguzzi 

 Near some sheep pens along the way was a cave,

—- 1 Samuel

 “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.”

—- Gospel of Mathew

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low 

And yet gave tongue. ‘Hound Voices’ were they all. 

We picked each other from afar and knew

—- Yeats

With its threefold revolution, its manifold aspects, 

Its purity of nature, and its extreme peace;

— Vimalakirti Sutra

Not only have consciousness and the concepts of its philosophical understanding of the world arisen from the symbol but also religion, rite and cult, art and customs

.—- Eric Neumann

We strive to make an amiable school where children, teachers and families feel a sense of well being.,

—- Malaguzzi

What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them

—– Gospel of Mathew

Here at right of the entrance this bronze head, 

Human, superhuman, a bird’s round eye,

—- Yeats

free of vain imaginings and always deeply peaceful

—- Vimalakirti Sutra

The symbol intimates, suggests, excites. Consciousness is set in motion and must employ all its functions to assimilate the symbol

—- Eric Neumann

I am all-devouring death, and I am the generator of all things yet to be

—- Bhagavad Gita

‘This I take for the best sign: they grow thankful. Before long they will be devising festivals and erecting memorials to their old joys.’

—- Nietzsche

Immeasurable ocean of virtue

—- Vimalakirti Sutra

Her mind moves upon silence

—-   Yeats

If gaps and dificulties arise in implementing our design and when participation is of uneven intensity, the system can continue to function. 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 feeling to all concerned.

—-  Malaguzzi

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

2023 (#145) : Montessori , Emerson , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Book of Samuel , Jerome Bruner , Eric Neumann , I Ching , Derrida , Marie-Louise von Franz , Bereshit , Jean Klein , Gospel of Mathew , Nietzsche , Gospel of John

IT is necessary to consider movement from a new point
of view.

—- Montessori

Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is
also the process and the result. All the parts incessantly work into
each other’s hands for the profit of man.

—- Emerson

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

—– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

 “Come, let’s go out in the countryside.”

— 1 Samuel

Meaning making involves situating encounters with the world
in their appropriate cultural contexts in order to know “what they are about.” 

—- Jerome Bruner 

the true object of our inquiry is the symbolic self-representation of the archetype that has passed through the medium of man, and that speaks to us from images fashioned sometimes unconsciously and sometimes consciously.

—- Eric Neumann

By flowing with life I mean acceptance — letting come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens.

—– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

Go in peace

—- 1 Samuel

When things are accumulated in great amount, nourishing becomes available. Thus after Great Accumulation, Nourishing follows.

—- I Ching

this gathered multiplicity … one speaks of the gathering of the soul or of the heart …

— Derrida

Although meanings are “in the mind,” they have their origins and their significance in the culture in which they are created. 

—– Jerome Bruner

You’ll be safe with me.

—- 1 Samuel

Jung said that to be in a situation where there is no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individuation.

—- Marie-Louise von Franz

coming to conjoin or constelate …

—- Derrida

It is this cultural situatedness of meanings that assures their negotiability and, ultimately, their communicability.

—- Jerome Bruner

 inexhaustible polytropy.

—- Derrida

 planted a garden toward the east

—- Bereshit

As long as there is a meditator, there’s no meditation. When the meditator disappears, there is meditation.

—– Jean Klein

“Listen and understand.”

—- Gospel of Mathew

For I am swallowed down

By this smallest oasis:

— it is simply opened, yawning, Its swetest mouth,

the sweetest-smelling of all the little mouths:

Then I fell in,

Down, straight through – among you,

You dearest maidens! Selah.

—- Nietzsche 

For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

—- Gospel of John 

This is meant to knock out the superiority of the ego, which always acts from the illusion that it has the responsibility of decision.

—- Marie-Louise von Franz

2023 (#144) : Malaguzzi , Eric Neumann , Emerson , Bhagavad Gita , Book of Samuel , Derrida , Montessori , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Gospel of Mathew , I Ching , Nietzsche , Heidegger , Bereshit , Gospel of Thomas , Lacan

active exploration and creative production by educators and children proceed without complete certainty but with a shared representation of the point of desitnation, the ultimate goal.

—– Malaguzzi 

As man becomes individualized, we must, for an understanding of the archetypal reaction, bear in mind the uniqueness of the individual situation

—- Eric Neumann

The field is at once his floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.

—- Emerson

 What always surprises us is how strategies will be modified along the way — how new methodologies and ways of proceeding will be mirrored in the corresponding activities, strategies and methodologies used by the children.

—– Malaguzzi

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

—- Bhagavad Gita

“An old man is coming up; he’s wearing a cloak.”

—- 1 Samuel

What is going, coming, going to come, going and
coming? And becoming heart? What coming, what singular event is
at issue? What impossible repetition?

—- Derrida

By taking children of three years and younger and by
creating around them an atmosphere of enthusiasm, of
dignity, of activity, in one generation the character of the
whole people was changed.

—– Montessori

eternity is In the split moment of the now. 

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

“I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.”

—- Gospel of Mathew

 let me put a little food in front of you; then eat, so you will have some strength when you go on your way.

—- 1 Samuel

 a few small fish.

—- Gospel of Mathew

Good fortune in turning upside down, seeking nourishment. The one above sheds light.

—- I Ching

 they also gave him a lump of dried figs and two bunches of raisins.

—- 1 Samuel

Becoming as invention, willing, self-denial, overcoming of oneself: no subject but an action, a positing, creative, no “causes and effects.”

—- Nietzsche

It is an essential feature of the primordial archetype that it com- bines positive and negative attributes and groups of attributes. This union of opposites in the primordial archetype, its ambivalence, is characteristic of the original situation of the unconscious, which con- sciousness has not yet dissected into its antitheses.

—- Eric Neumann

People still hold the view that what is handed down
to us by tradition is what in reality lies behind us-while
in fact it comes toward us because we are its captives
and destined to it.

—– Heidegger

The wind sows the seed;
the sun evaporates the sea; the wind blows the vapor to the field;
the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this;
the rain feeds the plant; the plant feeds the animal; and thus the
endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man.

— Emerson

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

—- Bhagavad Gita

by a kind of spacing that punctuates it … if thought belongs from the beginning to no one … blended into the continuum of something always – already – there … the origin is suspended by this multiple punctuation … moving again …

—- Derrida

He got up off the ground and sat on the bed. 

—- 1 Samuel

They all ate and were satisfied. 

—- Gospel of Mathew

The purely historical view of tradition
and the course of history is one of those vast self-deceptions in which we must remain entangled as long as we are still not really thinking.

—- Heidegger

Early man experienced this paradoxical simultaneity of good and evil, friendly and terrible, in the godhead as a unity; while as consciousness developed, the good goddess and the bad goddess, for example, usually came to be worshiped as different beings

—- Eric Neumann

The ancient Greeks called the world KOOl-l0;’, beauty_ Such is
the constitution of all things, or such the plastic power of the
human eye, that the primary forms, as the sky, the mountain,
the tree, the animal, give us a delight in and for themselves; a
pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping.

—– Emerson

without managing to close itself on its possibility, unsealing abandoning the circle open, wandering on the periphery, taking the pulse of an encircling phrase, the pulsion of the paragraph which never circumpletes itself, as long as the blood, what I call thus and thus call, continues its venue in its vein.

—- Derrida

After eating, he revived; because he hadn’t eaten anything or drunk any water for three days and nights.

 —1 Samuel

Pay attention to how you nourish yourself.

—– I Ching

he got into the boat and went to the vicinity of Magadan.

—- Gospel of Mathew

breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living being.

—- Bereshit 

Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being.

—– Gospel of Thomas 

Who, if not us, will call back into question the objective status of this “I,” which a historical evolution peculiar to our culture tends to confuse with the subject?

—- Lacan 

2023 (#143) : Malaguzzi , John Ashbery , Eric Neumann , Derrida , Book of Samuel , Gospel of Mathew , I Ching , Book of Ezekiel , Gospel of John , Issa Upanishad , Prashna Upanishad , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Tehillim

Among the goals of our approach is to strengthen each child’s sense of identity through recognition by peers and adults.

—- Malaguzzi 

Those wonderful things

Were planted on the surface of a round mind that was to become our

present time.

—– John Ashbery

 The symbols, like the archetype itself, possess a dynamic and a material component. They take hold of the human personality as a whole, arouse it and fascinate it, and attract consciousness, which strives to interpret them.

— Eric Neumann

Ashes or cinders are obviously traces – in general, the first figure of the trace one thinks of is that of the step, along a path, the step that lives a footprint, a trace, or a vestige.

—- Derrida

you have to climb up [from the spring outside the city] through the water tunnel. 

—- 2 Samuel

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

—- Gospel of Mathew 

The key is humility and sincerity; these two qualities bring harmony. This is the true meaning of Delight.

—- I Ching

Ensuring that every child feels a sense of security and belonging within the school enables each child to accept and participate actively in tranforming situations that are part of learning experiences.

—- Malaguzzi

 Each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.

—– Ezekiel 

It is a matter of life in the sense that life is not separable from an experience of death.

—- Derrida

 they set up a tent for Avshalom (Absalom) on the roof of the palace.

—- 2 Samuel

 He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him.

—- Gospel of John

So, yes, that is the first type of contradiction: the life of language is also the life of specters

—- Derrida 

If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you are one with me, and I am one with you.

—- Gospel of John 

from the Invisible Whole comes forth the visible whole. Though the visible whole has come out from that Invisible Whole, yet the Whole remains unaltered.

—- Issa Upanishad

 The material component of the symbol sets consciousness in mo- tion; aroused by the symbol, consciousness directs its interest toward it and seeks to understand it. That is to say, the symbol, aside from its dynamic effect as an “energy transformer,” is also a “molder of con- sciousness,” impelling the psyche to assimilate the unconscious content or contents contained in the symbol.

—- Eric Neumann 

In this way we widen the networks of communication, familiarizing children with different ways of communicating and supporting the actions and exchanges of individuals and the group

.—- Malaguzzi 

Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot, and they sparkled like burnished bronze.

—– Ezekiel 

 It is not only a matter of the specters of
Auschwitz or of all the dead one may lament, but of a spectrality proper to the body of language.

—- Derrida 

A watchman went up to the roof of the gate and out onto the wall, raised his eyes, looked, and saw there a man running by himself.

—- 2 Samuel

Language, the word—in a way, the
life of the word—is in essence spectral.

—- Derrida

He, all-prevalent life, first shows himself as Light.

—-  Prashna Upanishad

 In a ritual that was still in large part unconscious, the way led these early men into mountain caves, in whose hidden and almost inaccessible recesses they established “temples” adorned with repre- sentations of animals on the killing of which their existence depended.

—- Eric Neumann 

As a result the children discover that the value in communication is in enhancing the autonomy of individuals and the group.

—- Malaguzzi 

Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands.

—- Ezekiel 

Surely, you must sleep in order to wake up. You must die in order to live, you must melt down to shape anew. 

—– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

 Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.

—- Gospel of Mathew

You must destroy to build, annihilate before creation. The Supreme is the universal solvent, it corrodes every container, it burns through every obstacle.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

When he returned they returned. As bees follow their queen when she goes out; return when she returns; speech, mind, light, hearing returned: they began to praise life.

—- Prashna Upanishad

 here the way of destiny becomes the way of redemption; and with Christs conscious utterance, “I am the way,” this archetype attains to a new, wholly inward, and symbolic level

—- Eric Neumann 

the group becomes self-sustaining, developing its own conversation, its own ways of communicating, acting and thinking.

—- Malaguzzi 

There is a sort of spectral virtualization in the being of the word, in the very being of grammar. And it is therefore within language already, right on the tongue, that the experience of life-death makes itself felt.

—- Derrida

their wings touched one another; each of them moved straight ahead, without turning as they moved

—- Ezekiel 

Life, Lord of Creation, moving in the womb, there bringing yourself to birth, master of the five streams! A ll things offer you their tribute

—- Prashna Upanishad 

“To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.”

—– Gospel of Mathew

strolling on the roof of the king’s palace.

—- 2 Samuel

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

—- Prashna Upanishad 

whoever wants to save their life[f] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it

—- Gospel of Mathew

‘Life falls from Self as shadow falls from man. Life and Self are interwoven, but Life comes into the body that the desires of the mind may be satisfied

—- Prashna Upanishad 

You have filled my heart with more joy
than all their grain and new wine.

—- Tehillim

T h e organs of excretion and generation under the downward stream Apana ; eye, ear, where He lives himself under Prana, which passes out through mouth and nose ; the middle of the body under the equalising stream Samana, distributor of food, kindler of the seven flames

—- Prashna Upanishad 

 He dissolves you and thus reasserts your true being.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down.

—- Gospel of Mathew

Rising sun is the symbol of life; sun maintains Prana of the eye; earth draws down Apana; air, filler of all, maintains Samana; wind, Wyana.

—- Prashna Upanishad 

2023 (#142) : Eric Neumann , Winnicott , John Ashbery , I Ching , Book of Samuel , Gospel of Mathew , Maha Vakya Upanishad , William Carlos Williams , Book of Kings , Heidegger , Nietzsche , Derrida

A state of biopsychical seizure is always connected with the constellation of an archetype. This latter may bring about a change in the instincts and drives as well as in the passion, affectivity, and, on a higher plane, in the feeling tone of the personality on which the archetype works.

—- Eric Neumann

the play was of a self-healing kind. In
each case the result was comparable with a psychotherapeutic session in which the story would have been punctuated by
interpretations from the therapist.

—- Donald Winnicott

There is so much they must say, and it is important

About all the swimming motions, and the way the hands

Came up out of the ocean with original fronds,

The famous arrow, the girls who came at dawn

To pay a visit to the young child, and how, when he grew up to be a man

The same restive ceremony replaced the limited years between

—- John Ashbery 

nourishing myriad beings

Heaven and Earth obtain relief

Thunderstorm and rain come together

—- I Ching

act according to your wisdom

—- 2 Samuel

“Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be[e] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[f] loosed in heaven.”

—- Gospel of Mathew

It would shine like one thousand suns and would be complete like the shoreless sea. 

—- Maha Vakya Upanishad

I saw an eagle once circling against the clouds

over one of our principal churches— 

Easter, it was—a beautiful day! 

three gulls came from above the river 

and crossed slowly seaward!

—– William Carlos Williams

Even the instincts, the psychic dominants, which of all unconscious contents are most important for the psychological totality, seem to be linked with representations of images.

—- Eric Neumann

They laugh because they prosper. 

Fruit for them is upon all branches.

—– William Carlos Williams 

This complex process is highly dependent on there being a
mother or mother-figure prepared to participate and to give
back what is handed out. 

—- Donald Winnicott

The buds of plants and fruit trees begin to burst.

Great indeed is the time of relieving

—- I Ching

The king rose to meet her and bowed down to her.

—- 1 Kings

Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”

—- Gospel of Mathew

the instinctual plane of the drive and the pictorial plane of consciousness belong to- gether

—- Eric Neumann

This means that the mother (or part of mother) is in a ‘to and
fro’ between being that which the baby has a capacity to find and
(alternatively) being herself waiting to be found.

—– Donald Winnicott

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 

 Butterflies settle on his stone ear. 

Immortal he neither moves nor rouses and is seldom 

seen, though he breathes and the subtleties of his machinations 

drawing their substance from the noise of the pouring river 

animate a thousand automations.

—— William Carlos Williams 

I am borne away, my soul dances

—- Nietzsche

it is all a matter of knowing how to pull the threads, pull on the threads, according to the art of the weaver.

—– Derrida

2023 (#141) : Eric Neumann , Emerson , Gopala Tapani Upanishad , Book of Samuel , William Carlos Williams , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Derrida , Jung , Book of Kings , I Ching , Gospel of Mathew , Bhagavad Gita

The archetype is manifested principally in the fact that it determines human behavior unconsciously but in accordance with laws and independently of the experience of the individual.

—- Eric Neumann

By virtue of this inevitable nature, private will is overpowered, and maugre our efforts or our imperfections, your genius will speak from you, and mine from me.

—- Emerson 

the Supersoul, who is present in the apana air.

—– Gopala Tapani Upanishad 

“Come in! You’re a worthy man, so you must be bringing good news!”

— Book of Samuel

one arrives somehow, 

finds himself loosening the hooks of 

her dress 

in a strange bedroom– 

feels the autumn 

dropping its silk and linen leaves 

about her ankles.

—– William Carlos Williams

There is no ‘who’. There is desire, fear, anger, and the mind says — this is me, this is mine. There is no thing which could be called ‘me’ or ‘mine’. Desire is a state of the mind, perceived and named by the mind.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

Certainly the decision makes the event, but it also neutralizes this happening that must surprise both the freedom and the will of every subject — surprise, in a word, the very subjectivity of the subject, affecting it wherever the subject is exposed, sensitive, receptive, vulnerable and fundamentally passive, before and beyond any decision — indeed, before any subjectivation or objectivation.

—– Derrida

Depths and surface should mix so that new life can develop.

—-Jung

He spoke about plant life,

—- 1 King

Love is a young green willow 

shimmering at the bare wood’s edge.

—- William Carlos Williams

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”

—- Gospel of Mathew

 Ecstatic bird songs pound 

the hollow vastness of the sky 

with metallic clinkings– 

beating color up into it 

at a far edge,–beating it, beating it 

with rising, triumphant ardor,– 

stirring it into warmth

—- William Carlos Williams

The structure of the archetype is the complex network of psychic organization, which includes dynamism, symbolism, and sense content, and whose center and intangible unifier is the archetype itself

.—- Eric Neumann

Most of your experiences are unconscious. The conscious ones are very few. You are unaware of the fact because to you only the conscious ones count. Become aware of the unconscious .

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish. 

—- 1 Kings

But one can already see several possibilities opening up: the “who” might be there before and as the power to  ask questions or else it might be, and this comes down to the same thing, that which is made possible by the power (by being able to) ask questions about itself (who is who? who is it?).

—- Derrida

When analytical psychology speaks of the primordial image or archetype of the Great Mother, it is referring, not to any concrete image existing in space and time, but to an inward image at work in the human psyche. The symbolic expression of this psychic phenomenon is to be found in the figures of the Great Goddess represented in the myths and artistic creations of mankind.

—- Eric Neumann

Tension is relieved. A new cycle begins.

follow the way of yin like the earth

rest and recuperate like the Earth

—- I Ching

I am going the way of all the earth.

—- Book of Samuel

 Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”

—- Gospel of Mathew

All the people escorted him back, playing flutes and rejoicing greatly, so that the earth shook with the sound.

—- Book of Samuel 

One who neither hates nor desires the fruits of his activities is known to be always wise. Such a person, liberated from all dualities, easily overcomes material bondage and is completely liberated.

—- Bhagavad Gita

they had him ride on the king’s mule;

—- Book of Samuel

And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

—- Gospel of Mathew

 it is always possible for a text to become new, since the white spaces open up its structure to an indefinitely disseminated transformation.

—- Derrida

2023 (#140) : Malaguzzi , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Book of Kings , Gospel of Mathew , Emerson , Nietzsche , William Carlos Williams , I Ching , Kena Upanishad , Krishna Upanishad , Derrida , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Maha Vakya Upanishad , Tao Te Ching

We attend with infinite care to an endlessly renewed network of communication … 

—– Malaguzzi 

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. 

—- Sri Ramana Maharshi

 they ate, they drank and they were happy.

—- 1 Kings

“What do you want me to do for you?” 

—- Gospel of Mathew

Spirit primarily means wind

—– Emerson

To become what one is, one must not have the slightest notion of what one is . . . The whole surface of consciousness—consciousness is a surface—must be kept clear of all great imperatives .. 

—- Nietzsche

See me! 

My hair is dripping with nectar— 

Starlings carry it 

On their black wings.

—- William Carlos Williams

Harmony and Delight

establishing a magnanimous new dynasty

—- I Ching

‘Eye, tongue, cannot approach it nor mind know; not knowing, we cannot satisfy enquiry. It lies beyond the known, beyond the unknown.

—– Kena Upanishad

We consider relationships to be the fundamental, energizing strategy of our educational system … 

—– Malaguzzi 

If one has realized, one is that which alone is and which alone has always been. 

—– Sri Ramana Maharshi

everyone under their own vine and under their own fig tree.

—- 1 King

“These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.”

—– Gospel of Mathew

Meanwhile the organizing ‘idea’ that is destined to rule keeps growing deep down—it begins to command; slowly it leads us back from side roads and wrong roads; it prepares single qualities and fitnesses that will one day prove to be indispensable as a means towards the whole.

—– Nietzsche

when you are up and dressing, 

the rustle of your clothes as you raise them– 

it is the same tune. 

At table the cold, greeninsh, split grapefruit, its juice 

on the tongue, the clink of the spoon in 

your coffee, the toast odors say it over and over.

—– William Carlos Williams

His playful nature (play with the world) was an unknowable secret. 

—– . Krishna Upanishad

We seek to support social exchanges that better ensure the flow of expectations, activities, cooperation, conflicts, and choices, and we favor the discussion of problems that integrate the cognitive, affective, and expressive domains.

—– Malaguzzi

One cannot describe that state. One can only be that.

—– Sri Ramana Maharshi

one by one, it trains all subservient capacities before giving any hint of the dominant task, ‘goal’ ‘aim’, or ‘meaning’.

—– Nietzsche

 Of course, we loosely talk of Self-realization, for want of a better term. How to ‘realize’ or make real that which alone is real?

—– Sri Ramana Maharshi

“we want our sight.”

—- Gospel of Mathew

If I am cautious about the word ‘freedom,’ it is not because I subscribe to some mechanistic determinism. But this word often seems to me to be loaded with metaphysical presuppositions that confer on the subject or on consciousness—that is, on an egological subject—a sovereign independence in relation to drives, calculation, economy, the machine.

—– Derrida

There is no sense of purpose in my doing anything. Things happens as they happen — not because I make them happen, but it is because I am that they happen. In reality nothing ever happens. 

—– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

Saxifrage is my flower that splits 

the rocks.

—- William Carlos Williams

 If freedom is an excess of play in the machine … then I would militate for a recognition of and a respect for this freedom, but I prefer to avoid speaking of the subject’s freedom or the freedom of man.

—– Derrida

I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. 

—- 1 King

Yeshua  had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.

—— Gospel of Mathew

broken by the wind; calculating wings set above 

the field of waves breaking. 

Go to sleep to the lunge between foam-crests

—– William Carlos Williams

I am that Siva who is that sun of Knowledge.

—– Maha Vakya Upanishad

Everything God gives me will come to me, and I’ll never turn away the one who comes to me.

—- Gospel of John

Because she has let go of herself,

she is perfectly fulfilled.

—- Tao Te Ching

Finally, is it necessary to posit an interpreter behind the interpretation? Even this is invention, hypothesis.

—- Nietzsche