2024 (#38) : Montessori , Thomas Merton , Nietzsche , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Gospel of John , Derrida , John Keats

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.

—- Montessori

It is God’s love that warms me in the sun and God’s love that sends the cold rain. It is God’s love that feeds me in the bread I eat and God that feeds me also by hunger and fasting.  

—- Thomas Merton

To attain a height and bird’s eye view, so one grasps how everything actually happens as it ought to happen; how every
kind of “imperfection” and the suffering to which it gives rise
are part of the highest desirability.

—- Nietzsche

  It is the love of God that sends the winter days when I am cold and sick, and the hot summer when I labor and my clothes are full of sweat: but it is God Who breathes on me with light winds off the river and in the breezes out of the wood.

—- Thomas Merton

In nature nothing is at stand-still, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking — birth and death everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman

It is God’s love that speaks to me in the birds and streams 

—- Thomas Merton

We must, in short, keep in mind what might be called the
philosophy of movement ‘.

—- Montessori

My food is the will of Him Who made me and Who made all things in order to give Himself to me through them.   

—- Thomas Merton

On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

—- John

In giving myself I shall find Him and He is life everlasting.  

—- Thomas Merton

the future has the form of a past which I will never have witnessed and which for this reason remains always promised – and moreover also multiple.

—- Derrida

  By consenting to His will with joy and doing it with gladness I have His love in my heart, because my will is now the same as His love and I am on the way to becoming what He is, Who is Love.

—-   Thomas Merton

  She calmed its wild hair with a golden comb,  

—- John Keats

  And by accepting all things from Him I receive His joy into my soul, not because things are what they are but because God is Who He is, and His love has willed my joy in them all.

—- Thomas Merton

We should laugh at the idea of a plant or an
animal inventing itself, yet there are many
people who believe that the psyche or mind
invented itself and thus was the creator of its
own existence. As a matter of fact, the mind
has grown to its present state of consciousness
as an acorn grows into an oak or as saurians developed into mammals. As it has for so long been developing, so it still develops, and thus
we are moved by forces from within as well as
by stimuli from without.

—- Jung

  We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached fro1n ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God.

—– Thomas Merton   

Goethe’s Faust aptly says: “Im Anfang war
die Tat [In the beginning was the deed]. “
“Deeds ” were never invented, they were done ;
thoughts, on the other hand , are a relatively
late discovery of man . First he was moved to
deeds by unconscious factors; it was only a long
time afterward that he began to reflect upon
the causes that had moved him; and it took
him a very long time indeed to arrive at the
preposterous idea that he must have moved
himself—his mind being unable to identify any
other motivating force than his own.

— Jung

  He knows the mercy of God. He knows that his own mission on earth is to bring that mercy to all men.

—- Thomas Merton  

From the Father comes the son, and common to both is the living activity of the Holy Ghost … As he is the third term common to Father and Son, he puts an end to the duality, to the ‘doubt’ in the Son. He is, in fact, the third element that rounds out the Three and restores the One …the unfolding of the One reaches its climax in the Holy Spirit after polarizing itself as Father and Son.

—- Jung

  THE only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own false self, and enter by love into union with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls.

—- Thomas Merton

2024 (#37) : Thomas Merton , Heidegger , Tehillim , Emerson , John Keats , Mashal , Jung

The ever-changing reality in the midst of which we live should awaken us to the possibility of an uninterrupted dialogue with God.

—- Thomas Merton

The first help might be the readying of this readiness.

—- Heidegger

I will run my life with a sincere heart

—- Tehillim

  It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect h!! is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things.

—- Emerson  

  And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass,

—- John Keats  

In all the situations of life the “will of God” comes to us not merely as an external dictate of impersonal law but above all as an interior invitation of personal love. 

—- Thomas Merton

It is not through man that the world can be what it is and how it is — but also not without man. In my view, this goes together with the fact that what I call “Being” (that long traditional, highly ambiguous, now worn-out word) has need of man in order that its revelation, its appearance as truth, and its [various] forms may come to pass;

—- Heidegger

  He is caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.  

—- Emerson

  Her silk had play’d in purple phantasies:

—- John Keats  

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

—- Mashal

  Those dainties made to still an infant’s cries

—- John Keats

  But the quality of the imagination is to flow, and not to freeze. The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning; neither may he rest in this meaning, but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought.

—- Emerson  

We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. His inscrutable love seeks our awakening. True, since this awakening implies a kind of death to our exterior self, we will dread His coming in proportion as we are identified with this exterior self and attached to it. 

—- Thomas Merton

These inner motives spring from a deep
source that is not made by consciousness and is
not under its control.

—- Jung

I must learn therefore to let go of the familiar and the usual and consent to what is new and unknown to me. I must learn to “leave myself” in order to find myself by yielding to the love of God. 

— Thomas Merton

2024 (#36) : Thomas Merton , Jung , Jerome Bruner , Emerson , Derrida , Tehillim

  Contemplation is an intuitive awakening in which our free and personal reality becomes fully alive to its own existential depths, which open out into the mystery of God.  

—- Thomas Merton

 The supreme meaning is not a meaning and not an absurdity, it is image and force in one, magnificence and force together. 

—- Jung

And the tool kit of any culture is replete not only with a stock of canonical life narratives (heroes, tricksters, etc.), but with combinable formal constituents from which its members can construct their own life narratives: canonical stances and circumstances, as it were.

—– Jerome Bruner

  The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet. is he who can articulate it.

—- Emerson  

Between the fragments of the broken Tables the poem grows and the right to speech takes root.

—- Derrida

  For the contemplative there is no cogito (“I think”) and no ergo (“therefore”) but only SUM, I AM. Not in the sense of a futile assertion of our individuality as ultimately real, but in the humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells, with infinite sweetness and inalienable power.

—- Thomas Merton   

The supreme meaning is the beginning and the end. It is the bridge of going across and fulfillment.

—- Jung

  The poet is the Namer or Language maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to everyone its own name and not anothers, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachments or boundary.   

—- Emerson

the infinitely small point of meaning which the languages barely brush … What can an infinitely small point of meaning be? What is the measure to evaluate it? The metaphor itself is at once the question and the answer.

— Derrida

  IT is not we who choose to awaken ourselves, bu t God W ho chooses to awake n us.

—- Thomas Merton  

 The supreme meaning never dies, it turns into meaning and then into absurdity, and out of the fire and blood of their collision the supreme meaning rises up rejuvenated anew.

—- Jung

  Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.  

—- Thomas Merton

   What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or change; and nature does all things by her own hands, and does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself; and this through the metamorphosis again.  

—- Emerson

  Just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.   

—- Thomas Merton

For Adonai is good, his grace continues forever,

—- Tehillim / Psalms

  Every expression of the will of God is in some sense a “word” of God and therefore a “seed” of new life.  

—- Thomas Merton

2024 (#35) : Montessori , Emerson , Thomas Merton , John Ashbery , Tehillim , Jung , Mashal , Prashna Upanishad , Gospel of John , Nietzsche

the child absorbs the environment, he takes every-
thing from the environment and incarnates it in himself.
He can do everything. He is really omnipotent, where-
as the adult who is already formed cannot change. So
we have in front of us a clear vision.

—- Montessori

But the quality of the imagination is to flow, and not to freeze. The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning; neither may he rest in this meaning, but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought.

—- Emerson  

  It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.

—-     Thomas Merton

the day was warm and pleasant.

“We see you in your hair,

Air resting around the tips of mountains.”

— John Ashbery

  We awaken, not to find an answer absolutely distinct from the question, but to realize that the question is its own answer. And all is summed up in one awareness-not a proposition, but an experience: “I AM.”

—- Thomas Merton

If only today you would listen to his voice:

—- Tehillim

 the gaps in
his childhood memory are merely the symptoms of a much greater loss the loss of the
primitive psyche.

 —- Jung

It proposes: sight blinded by sunlight.

The seeing taken in with what is seen

In an explosion of sudden awareness of its formal splendor.

—- John Ashbery

It is awakening, enlightenment and the amazing intuitive grasp by which love gains certitude of God’s creative and dynamic intervention in our daily life. 

—- Thomas Merton

a gift opens the way for the giver and ushers him into the presence of the great.

—- Proverbs / Mashal

‘Life! Creator, Protector, Destroyer! Sun in heavenly circuit! Master of stars!
‘Pour down the rain, let all things find their food, thrive, rejoice.
‘Life itself! Purity itself! Fire itself, Eater, Master! All the world your food, Father in Heaven!
‘May your body be in our speech, hearing, sight, mind

—- Prashna Upanishad

By myself I can do nothing

—- John

Contemplation cannot be taught. It cannot even be clearly explained. It can only be hinted at, suggested, pointed to, symbolized.    

—– Thomas Merton

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

  For I want to go to men once more; under their eyes I want to go under; dying, I want to give them my richest gift. From the sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

—— Nietzsche 

2024 (#34) : Montessori , Emerson , Jung , Thomas Merton , Marie-Louise von Franz , Gospel of Mark , John Keats , Nietzsche

 Something continues in the sub-conscious,
because what has been formed by the child can never
be totally destroyed.

—- Montessori

  His cheerfulness should be the gift of the sunlight; t the air should suffice for his inspiration, and he should be tipsy with water

— Emerson  

When something long since passed away comes back again in a changed world, it is new.

—- Jung 

An awareness of our contingent reality as received, as a present from God, as a free gift of love. This is the existential contact of which we speak when we use the metaphor of being “touched by God.”

—- Thomas Merton

The actual process of individuation the conscious coming-to-terms with one’ s own inner
center (psychic nucleus ) or Self—generally be –
gins with a wounding of the personality and the
suffering that accompanies it.

—- Marie-Louise von Franz

 This Mneme, which may be con-
sidered as a superior natural memory, not only creates
characteristics, but holds them alive in the individual.

— Montessori

  The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy. The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men~ We seem to be touched by a wand which makes us dance and run about happily, like children.  

—- Emerson

 To give birth to the ancient in a new time
is creation. This is the creation of the new, and that redeems me.

—- Jung

Contemplation is also the response to a call: a call from Him Who has no voice, and yet Who speaks in everything that is, and Who, most of all, speaks in the depths of our own being: for we ourselves are words of His. 

—Thomas Merton

 This initial shock
amounts to a sort of “call, ” although it is not
often recognized as such. On the contrary, the
ego feels hampered in its will or its desire and
usually projects the obstruction onto something
external.

—- Marie-Louise von Franz

The individual changes, it is true, but those things which
are formed by the child remain in the personality just
as the legs remain, so that each man has this special
character.

—- Montessori

  Plato calls the world an animal, and Timreus affirms that the plants also are animals; or affirms a man to be a heavenly tree, growing with his root

—- Emerson  

Salvation is the resolution of the task. The task is to give birth to the old in a new time

— Jung

It is a deep resonance in the inmost center of our spirit in which our very life loses its separate voice and re-sounds with the majesty and the mercy of the Hidden and Living One. 

—-Thomas Merton

  This emancipation is dear to all men, and the power to impart it, as it must come fronl greater depth and scope of thought, is a measure of intellect.

—- Emerson  

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

—- Mark

 Behold upon this happy earth we are ;

 Let us ay love each other  

—- John Keats

  I taught them all my creating and striving, to create and carry together into One what in man is fragment and riddle and dreadful accident; as creator, guesser of riddles, and redeemer of accidents,

—- Nietzsche   

He answers Himself in us and this answer is divine life, divine creativity, making all things new. 

—-     Thomas Merton

2024 (#33) : Thomas Merton , Jung , Emerson , John Keats , I Ching , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Gospel of Mathew , Derrida , Gospel of Mark , Nietzsche , Tao Te Ching

  Contemplation is always beyond our own knowledge, beyond our own ligllt, beyond systems, beyond explanations, beyond discourse, beyond dialogue, beyond our own self.

—- Thomas Merton

Every good idea and all creative work are the
offspring of the imagination, and have their source
in what one is pleased to call infantile fantasy

—-Jung 

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

—- Emerson

  His very goddess : good-bye earth, and sea, 

And air, and pains, and care, and suffering 

Good-bye to all but love !  

—- John Keats

To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life 

—- Thomas Merton

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a
characteristic also of the child, and as such it
appears inconsistent with the principle of serious
work. 

—- Jung

  The moon put forth a little diamond peak, 

No bigger than an unobserved star, 

On tiny point of fairy scimetar  

—- John Keats

In the actual experience of contemplation all other experiences are momentarily lost. They “die” to be born again on a higher level of life.    

—- Thomas Merton

Without this playing with fantasy no
creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt
we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

—– Jung

  Dissolve the frozen purity of air

—- John Keats  

  Contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real. A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being  

—– Thomas Merton

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

—-Jung

Acting in accord with the time and moving forward;

This is Delight.

—- I Ching

What is your happiness worth when you have to strive and labour for it? True happiness is spontaneous and effortless. Pleasure and pain alternate. Happiness is unshakable. What you can seek and find is not the real thing. Find what you have never lost, find the inalienable.

–—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

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

—– Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH

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

—- Derrida

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

—- Mark

  Verily, I also let them see new stars along with new nights; and over clouds and day and night I still spread out laughter as a colorful tent.

—- Nietzsche  

He sees things as they are

without trying to control them.

He lets them go their own way,

and resides at the center of the circle.

—- Tao Te Ching

2024 (#32) : Thomas Merton , Emerson , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Jung , Malaguzzi , Gospel of Mathew , Nietzsche

  CONTEMPLATION is the highest expression of man’s intellectual and spiritual life. It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder.

—– Thomas Merton

  it is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things

—- 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 / Maurice Frydman 

looking, psychologically, brings about the activation
of the object; it is as if something were emanating
from one’s spiritual eye that evokes or activates the
object of one’s vision.

—- Jung

Observing in this way offers tremendous benefits. It
requires a shift in the role of the teacher from an
emphasis of teaching to an emphasis on learning,
teachers learning about themselves as teachers as
well as teachers learning about children.

—- Malaguzzi 

 It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent and infinitely abundant Source.

—– Thomas Merton

  ·’with the flower of the mind”; not with the intellect used as an organ, but with the intellect released from all service and suffered to take its direction from its celestial life; or as the ancients were wont to express themselves, not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated by nectar.

—- Emerson  

The English verb, ‘to look at,’ does not convey this
meaning, but the German betrachten, which is an
equivalent, means also to make pregnant…. And if
it is pregnant, then something is due to come out of
it; it is alive, it produces, it multiplies.

—– Jung

This is a
self-learning that takes place for the teacher and it
enables the teacher to see things that are taking place
in children that teachers were not able to see before.

—- Malaguzzi

 Contemplation is, above all, awareness of the reality of that Source. It knows the Source, obscurely, inexplicably, but with a certitude that goes both beyond reason and beyond simple faith.   

—– Thomas Merton

  As the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse’s neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.

—- Emerson  

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

—- Mathew/Mattityahu – gift of YAHWEH

Purpose implies movement, change, a sense of imperfection. God does not aim at beauty — whatever he does is beautiful. God is perfection itself, not an effort at perfection. Be fully aware of your own Being and you will be in bliss consciously

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 

  It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves’ feet guide the world.

—- Nietzsche  

  For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature; the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible.

—- Emerson

2024 (#31) : Emerson , Meister Eckhart , Jung , John Keats , Sri Ramana Maharshi , Book of Jeremiah , Katha Upanishad , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , I Ching , Holderlin

  He rose one day, according to his habit, before the dawn, and saw the morning break, grand as the eternity out of which it came, and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity

—- Emerson  

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

— Meister Eckhart

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

—- Jung

  The expression is organic, or the new type which things themselves take when liberated. As, in the sun, objects paint their images on the retina of the eye, so they, sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence in his mind .. Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic forms is their change into melodies.

—- Emerson  

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

—- Jung

  Over wide streams and mountains great we went.

 And, save when Bacchus kept his ivy tent, 

Onward the tiger and the leopard pants, 

—–With Asian elephants 

Onward these myriads —with song and dance, 

With zebras striped, and sleek Arabians’ prance.  

—- John Keats

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

—- Sri Ramana Maharshi

I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

—- Jeremiah

Where our coming and our having come converge and become one, there we are born, we are created from the beginning and we receive again the form of the first Image.

–— Meister Eckhart

This sacred knowledge is not attained by reasoning.  Atman, the Spirit of vision is never born and never dies.

—- Katha Upanishad

Your personal universe does not exist by itself. It is merely a limited and distorted view of the real. It is not the universe that needs improving, but your way of looking.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

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

—- I Ching

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

—- Jung

  Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody

—- Emerson

Then give us calm waters; 

Give us wings, and loyal minds

 To cross over and return.

—- Holderlin

   Far from the earth away —unseen, alone, 

Among cool clouds and winds, but that the free, 

The buoyant life of song can floating be 

Above their heads, and follow them untired.

—– John Keats

The sea, the mountain ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.   

—- Emerson 

2024 (#30) : Emerson , Jung , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Mashal , Deleuze , Katha Upanishad , Heidegger

One moral we have already deduced, in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.

— Emerson

There was a blue sky, like the sea, covered not by clouds but by flat brown clods of earth. It looked as if the clods were breaking apart and the blue water of the sea were becoming visible between them. But the water was the blue sky

—- Jung

There must be love in the relation between the person who says ‘I am’ and the observer of the ‘I am’

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman

Then you will understand righteousness, justice,
fairness and every good path.

—-Mashal 

Multiplicity is the inseparable manifestation, essential
transformation and constant symptom of unity.

—– Deleuze

 Another analogy we shall now trace, that every action admits of being outdone.

—– Emerson

Suddenly there appeared from the right a
winged being sailing across the sky. I saw that it was an old man with the horns of a bull.

—- Jung

 It is only when the observer (‘vyakta’) accepts the person (‘vyakti’) as a projection or manifestation of himsel

—–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

wisdom will enter your heart

—-Mashal 

Multiplicity is the
affirmation of unity

—– Deleuze

 Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature,

—-  Emerson

He held a bunch of four keys, one of which he clutched as if he were about to open a lock

—- Jung

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

—–  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

.

knowledge will be enjoyable for you

—–Mashal 

becoming is the affirmation of being. The affirmation
of becoming is itself being

—– Deleuze

 Every end is a beginning;  there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

—– Emerson

He had the wings of the
kingfisher with its characteristic colors.

—- Jung

discretion will watch over you,
and discernment will guard you

—- Mashal 

the affirmation of multiplicity is
itself one. Multiple affirmation is the way in which the one affirms
itself.

—–  Deleuze

you seeking after God, let your heart revive.
For Adonai pays attention to the needy

—– Tehillim

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

—- Katha Upanishad 

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

—– Heidegger

2024 (#29) : Montessori , Emerson , John Keats , Tehillim , Book of Acts , Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj , Maurice Frydman , Malaguzzi , Derrida , Marie-Louise von Franz , Nietzsche

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

—- Montessori

  The Universe is the externalization of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it.  

—- Emerson

  Delicious symphonies, like airy flowers, 

Budded, and swell’d, and, full-blown, shed full

showers 

Of light, soft, unseen leaves of sounds divine.  

—- John Keats

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

—- Tehillim

  The youth at once arose : a placid lake 

Came quiet to his eyes ; and forest green,

 Cooler than all the wonders he had seen, 

 Lulled’d with its simple song his fluttering breast.

 How happy once again in grassy nest !  

—- John Keats

 They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

—- Acts

Yes, the inner fruit must ripen. Until then the discipline, the living in awareness, must go on. Gradually the practice becomes more and more subtle, until it becomes altogether formless.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

We have to understand that they are moving
and working with many ideas, but their most important task is to build relationships with friends. They
are trying to understand what friendship is. Children
grow in many directions together, but a child is
always in search of relationships,

—- Malaguzzi

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

—- Tehillim/Psalms

everything plays itself out despite or against the distinction between perception and dream. beyond these oppositions or between these terms, but not in total confusion … in the movement of its constellation

—- Derrida

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

—- Marie-Louise von Franz

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

— Tehillim / Psalms

  And life itself confided this secret to me: “Behold,” it said, “I am that which must always overcome itself. Indeed, you call it a will to procreate or a drive to an end, to something higher, farther, more manifold: but all this is one, and one secret.

—- Nietzsche  

speak in other tongues

—- Acts

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

—– Marie-Luoise von Franz

It’s only nine in the morning!

—- Acts

  Where is beauty? Where I must will with all my will; where I want to love and perish that an image may not remain a mere image. Loving and perishing: that has rhymed for eternities. The will to love, that is to be willing also to die.

—- Nietzsche