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persistent, quiet influence

--- I Ching

As the flowers recited their lines
And pike stirred at the bottom of the pond.
The pen was cool to the touch.
The staircase swept upward

---- John Ashbery



respond to this 
stimulation cheerfully and joyously

----  I Ching

From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

---Genesis / Bereshit



the universal mutual 
attraction between the sexes


---- I Ching

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

---- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

In courtship, the masculine 
principle must seize the initiative and place itself below the feminine 
principle.

--- I Ching

Moreover I declare to you that the Lord will build you a house.

----Chronicles



courtship and marriage, the foundations of all social 
relationships


---- I Ching

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world. 

---- Emerson





The weak element is above, the strong below; hence their powers attract each 
other, so that they unite. This brings about success, for all success depends on the effect of mutual attraction.


---- I Ching

But the Feminine is also
the goddess of time, and thus of fate.

---- Eric Neumann



By keeping still within while experiencing joy 
without, one can prevent the joy from going to excess and hold it within 
proper bounds.

---- I Ching

Air resting around the tips of mountains.”-

--- John Ashbery

it is perseverance that makes the difference between seduction 
and courtship; in the latter the strong man takes a position inferior to that of 
the weak girl and shows consideration for her.

---- I Ching

 Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

---- Emerson

This attraction between 
affinities is a general law of nature. Heaven and earth attract each other and 
thus all creatures come into being.

---- I Ching

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.

---- Mark

From the 
attractions they exert we can learn the nature of all beings in heaven and on 
earth.

---- I Ching

The primordial mystery of weaving and spinning-

--- Eric Neumann

A lake on the mountain:
        The image of influence.
        Thus the superior man encourages people to approach him
        By his readiness to receive them.

---- I Ching

For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.

--- Tehillim / Psalms

A mountain with a lake on its summit is stimulated by the moisture from 
the lake. It has this advantage because its summit does not jut out as a peak 
but is sunken.

---- I Ching

Then give us calm waters; Give us wings, and loyal minds To cross over and return.

--- Holderlin

the mind should be kept humble and 
free, so that it may remain receptive to good advice.

----  I Ching

Eating God’s words constitutes a parallel to the Holy Sacrament—here too, a divine transubstantiation takes place


--- Derrida

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the thought of the “yes, yes” given to this shadowless gift at the ripening high noon, beneath that division whose borders are inundated by sunlight: the overflowing cup of the sun. 

—- Derrida

Here the movement goes out of the sphere of danger

----  I Ching

If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.

---- Mathew

The obstacle has been 
removed, the difficulties are being resolved.

---- I Ching

This nondescript, never-to-be defined daytime is
The secret of where it takes place

---- John Ashbery



we ought to make our way back to ordinary conditions as soon 
as possible

--- I Ching

She has but doesn’t posses, acts but doesn’t expect

--- Tao Te Ching

Just as rain relieves atmospheric tension, 
making all the buds burst open, so a time of deliverance from burdensome 
pressure has a liberating and stimulating effect on life

---- I Ching

Having studied the mocking-bird’s tones and the flight of the mountain-hawk

---- Walt Whitman

Returning to the regular 
order of life as soon as deliverance is achieved brings good fortune

---- I Ching

I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

---- John

  Thunder and rain set in:
        The image of DELIVERANCE.
        Thus the superior man pardons mistakes 
        And forgives misdeeds.

--- I Ching

The clouds were near and very moist.

---- John Ashbery

A thunderstorm has the effect of clearing the air

--- I Ching

Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.

---- Bereshit / Genesis



water washes 
everything clean

--- I Ching

And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be
none in the future,
And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn’d to
beautiful results,
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death

---- Walt Whitman

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Man achieves the height of 
wisdom when all that he does is as self-evident as what nature does

---- I Ching

Lo, the unbounded sea,
On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her
moonsails

---- Walt Whitman


But ask the animals — they will teach you —
and the birds in the air — they will tell you;

---- Job

He completes his works in such a manner that they may bear fruit for 
the future.

--- I Ching

Like a dozing whale on the sea bottom
In relation to the tiny, self-important ship
On the surface

---- John Ashbery

or speak to the earth — it will teach you —
and the fish in the sea will inform you :

---- Job



Midnight blue is the color of heaven; yellow is the color of 
earth.

---- I Ching

They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam

---- Walt Whitman

every one of them knows
that the hand of Adonai has done this!

---- Job

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

---- I Ching

Follows a course wherein changes are merely
Features of the whole

---- John Ashbery


I assure you that I am the gate of the sheep.

---- John


Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs

--- Walt Whitman


The Master 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


By being with yourself, the ‘I am’; by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind. Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.---- 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman

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Whoever is of God listens to God

—- John

THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH
THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH

---- I Ching

the breath of life is the consciousness of life and the consciousness of life is the breath of life

---- Kaushitaki Upanishad

The attribute is devotion; its image is the earth

---- I Ching


 Forgive and you will be forgiven.

---- Luke



It is the perfect complement of 
THE CREATIVE

---- I Ching


Wonder siezd all in Eternity! to behold the Divine Vision. open
The Center into an Expanse, & the Center rolled out into an Expanse

---- William Blake



the Receptive does 
not combat the Creative but completes it

---- I Ching

The man called his wife Havah [life], because she was the mother of all living.

--- Bereshit / Genesis

nature in contrast to 
spirit, earth in contrast to heaven, space as against time, the female-maternal 
as against the male-paternal.

---- I Ching

Fibres of Life to Weave, for every Female is a Golden Loom

--- William Blake


in the individual this duality appears 
in the coexistence of the spiritual world and the world of the senses

---- I Ching


looking forward to look forward to.
The moment would be a bud

---- John Ashbery




the Receptive must be activated and led by the Creative; then it 
is productive of good

---- I Ching


Then Mary burst forth into a Song! she flowed like a River of
Many Streams in the arms of Joseph & gave forth her tears of joy
Like many waters, and Emanating into gardens & palaces upon
Euphrates & to forests & floods & animals wild & tame

---- William Blake



THE RECEPTIVE brings about sublime success,
        Furthering through the perseverance of a mare.
        If the superior man undertakes something and tries to lead,
        He goes astray;
        But if he follows, he finds guidance.
        It is favorable to find friends in the west and south,
        To forego friends in the east and north.
        Quiet perseverance brings good fortune.


---- I Ching


Workers rush toward some hint
of emptiness, which they then
start to fill. Their hope, though,
is for emptiness, so don’t think
you must avoid it. It contains
what you need!
Dear soul, if you were not friends
with the vast nothing inside,
why would you always be casting your net
into it, and waiting so patiently?

---- Rumi




The Receptive 
connotes spatial reality in contrast to the spiritual potentiality of the Creative

---- I Ching


That not one Moment of Time be lost & every revolution
Of Space

--- Willliam Blake



The horse belongs to earth just as the 
dragon belongs to heaven.


---- I Ching


and the season is coming into season just now
with long-awaited words from back when we were
friends and still are, of course, but the tides
pursue their course each day

---- John Ashbery



Nature's richness 
lies in its power to nourish all living things; its greatness lies in its power to 
give then beauty and splendor. Thus it prospers all that lives.


--- I Ching


Those who are kind benefit themselves.

--- Mashal / Proverbs



IT is the 
Creative that begets things, but they are brought to birth by the Receptive

---- I Ching


In what exists, find happiness.
Existence thrives; law measures
And safeguards all the living treasures
With which the Cosmos decked its dress.

---- Goethe


It is not his task to try to lead— that would only make him 
lose the way-but to let himself be led.


---- I Ching

I entered and discerned with
the eye of my soul (such as it was), even beyond my
soul and mind itself, the Light unchangeable.

---- Saint Augustine


If he knows how to meet fate with an 
attitude of acceptance, he is sure to find the right guidance.


---- I Ching

It is above me, because it made me ; and I am under it, because I was made by it. He that knows truth or
verity knows what that light is, and he that knows it knows eternity, and it is known by charity. O eternal Verity ! and true Charity ! and dear Eternity ! thou art my God, to thee do I sigh day and night.

---- Saint Augustine

The superior man 
lets himself be guided; he does not go ahead blindly, but learns from the 
situation what is demanded of him and then follows this intimation from 
fate.


---- I Ching


For the Sanctuary of Eden. is in the Camp: in the Outline,
In the Circumference: & every Minute Particular is Holy


---- William Blake



Since there is something to be accomplished, we need friends and helpers in 
the hour of toil and effort, once the ideas to be realized are firmly set.

--- I Ching


Not from any desire, resolve, or effort on the part of the
rising sun, but merely due to the presence of his rays, the lens
emits heat, the lotus blossoms, water evaporates, and people
attend to their various duties in life. In the proximity of the
magnet the needle moves.


---- Sri Ramana Maharshi



west and south 
symbolize the place where the Receptive works for the Creative


---- I Ching

The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life–only to take it up again.


---- John

to find 
friends there means to find guidance


---- I Ching


These trees and stones are audible to me,
These idle flowers, that tremble in the wind,
I understand their faery syllables-

--- Emerson



The earth's condition is receptive devotion


--- I Ching


Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.


---- Mark



the superior man gives to his 
character breadth, purity, and sustaining power, so that he is able both to 
support and to bear with people and things.


---- I Ching


The time of day or the density of the light
Adhering to the face keeps it
Lively and intact in a recurring wave
Of arrival. The soul establishes itself.

---- John Ashbery


Then Adonai, God, formed a person [a] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living being.


----- Bereshit

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Enthusiasm is justified 

when it is a general feeling that unites one with others.

---- I Ching

There must be love in the relation between the person who says ‘I am’ and the observer of the ‘I am’… It is only when the observer (‘vyakta’) accepts the person (‘vyakti’) as a projection or manifestation of himself, and so to say, takes the self into the Self, the duality of ‘I’ and ‘this’ goes and the identity of the outer and the inner, the Supreme Reality manifests itself.

---- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman

To know the seeds, that is divine indeed.

---- Confucius 

If only today you would listen to his voice

---- Tehillim



The seeds 
are the first imperceptible beginning of movement, the first trace of 
good fortune that shows itself

---- I Ching

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

You gather friends around you

---- I Ching

streams of living water will flow from within him

--- John

he has no doubts and is wholly sincere

---- I Ching


This magnetic process revolutionizes the ego-oriented psyche
by setting up, in contradistinction to the ego, another goal or
centre which is characterized by all manner of names and symbols: fish, serpent, centre of the sea-hawk, point, monad, cross,
paradise, and so on.

---- Jung  

Since earliest times, in solitude, 
To tasks of love that they deemed good 
Wise men and poets were inspired; 
So you'll reach favor's fairest goals: 
Anticipating noble souls 
Is work most ardently desired.

---- Goethe   

One must, in a certain way of course, inhabit the
circle, turn around in it, live there a feast of thinking, and the gift, the
gift of thinking, would be no stranger there.

---- Derrida

… when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours. Nothing can pass there, or make you one of the circle, but the casting aside your trappings and dealing man to man in naked truth, plain confession, and omniscient affirmation.

---- Emerson

His hands and feet are everywhere, he has heads and mouths everywhere: he sees all, he hears all. He is in all,He is within all and he is outside all.He is ONE in all, but it seems as if he were many. He supports all beings: from him comes destruction, and from him comes creation.

---- Bhagavad Gita

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THE AROUSING, THUNDER
THE RECEPTIVE, EARTH

---- I Ching

The passion rebuilds the world for youth. It makes
all things alive and significant. Nature grows
conscious. Every bird on the boughs of the tree
sings now to his heart and soul…the clouds have
faces…the trees of the forest, the waving grass,
the peeping flowers have intelligence….

---- Emerson

This begins a movement 
that meets with devotion and therefore inspires enthusiasm, carrying all with it.


---- I Ching

Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you..

---- Mathew

the law of movement along 
the line of least resistance

---- I Ching

There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous, a time for being exhausted ; a time for being safe, a time for being in danger.

---- Tao Te Ching

the law for natural events and for human life

---- I Ching

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  

---- Bereshit / Genesis

ENTHUSIASM. It furthers one to install helpers
        And to set armies marching

---- I Ching

the task, the mission to which one is destined (always by the other), the commitment, the duty, the debt, the responsibility … the bond and the love which seal the marriage between the author of the ‘original’ and his own language.

---- Derrida

These laws are not forces external 
to things but represent the harmony of movement immanent in them

----I Ching

 And the man[a] looked up and said, “I can see people, but they look like trees, walking.”

---- Mark

Thunder comes resounding out of the earth:
        The image of ENTHUSIASM

---- I Ching

to wait without waiting, awaiting absolute surprise, the unexpected visitor, awaited without a horizon of expectation … the messianic as hospitality … the madness of hospitality…

---- Derrida

a prolonged state of tension is resolved. Joy and 
relief make themselves felt. So too, music has power to ease tension 
within the heart and to loosen the grip of obscure emotions

---- I Ching

the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

---- Luke

The enthusiasm of the heart expresses itself involuntarily in a burst 
of song, in dance and rhythmic movement of the body. From immemorial 
times the inspiring effect of the invisible sound that moves all 
hearts, and draws them together, has mystified mankind.

---- I Ching

The future takes on life already

The moment is eternity.

And when at last success awaits you
And this high feeling penetrates you
That fruitful things alone are true
You'll test the common motive forces
And find they take their natural courses.
The smallest group is best for you. 

---- Goethe

Music was looked upon as something serious and holy, 
designed to purify the feelings of men. It fell to music to glorify 
the virtues of heroes and thus to construct a bridge to the world 
of the unseen.

---- I Ching

The ‘I’-thought is the ego and that is lost. The real ‘I’ is
‘I am that I am’. ---- 

Sri Ramana Maharshi



the heavenly and the earthly world met in mystical contact

----  I Ching

Don’t be troubled. Believe in God, and believe in me.  My Father’s house has many rooms. If that were not true, would I have told you that I’m going to prepare a place for you?

---- John

But he who will teach this secret doctrine to those who have love for me, and who himself has supreme love, he in truth shall come unto me.

---- Bhagavad Gita

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a breeze, a moment’s glance — it is little that makes the best happiness. Still! …

---- Nietzsche

 

Observing small group work informs teachers about relationships among children , their particpation and the roles that each child plays in the group … Children learn by interacting with their environment and actively transforming their relationships with the world of adults, things, events, and in original ways, their peers. In a sense, children participate in constructing their identity and the identity of others.

---- Malaguzzi

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

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Things that accord in tone vibrate together

---- I Ching

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. When the fruit is despatched, the leaf falls.

--- Emerson

the moment he stretched out his hand

---- Joshua

 Things that have affinity in their 
inmost natures seek one another.

---- I Ching

 The circuit of the waters is mere falling. The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward.

---- Emerson

The girl is not dead but asleep.

---- Mathew


When man sinks into sleep, there is a change in the relationship of his members. That part of the
sleeping man that lies in bed contains the physical and ether bodies, but not the astral body and not the
ego. Because the ether body remains united with the physical body in sleep, the life-activities continue

--- Rudolf Steiner


Clouds (the breath of heaven) follow the dragon

---- I Ching

This description fits the paradoxical situation of the self, as its symbolism shows. It is the smallest of the small, easily over- looked and pushed aside. Indeed, it is in need of help and must
be perceived, protected, and as it were built up by the conscious
mind, just as if it did not exist at all and were called into being
only through man’s care and devotion.

---- Jung

According to your faith let it be done to you

--- Mathew



 wind (the breath of earth) follows the tiger

---- I Ching

we know
from experience that it had long been there and is older than
the ego, and that it is actually the secret spiritus rector of our
fate.

---- Jung


going the way of all the earth.

---- Joshua


The strength of the Creative and the mildness of the Receptive 
unite.

---- I Ching


A clearing in the forest is still there, even when it’s dark. Light presupposes clearing. There can only be brightness where something has been cleared or where something is free for the light.

--- Heidegger


 Freely you have received; freely give.

---- Mathew


mildness in action joined to strength of decision brings good fortune.


---- I Ching




The work will go on of itself. Thus Krishna told Arjuna that he need not trouble to kill the Kauravas because they were already slain by God. It was not for him to resolve to work and worry himself about it, but to allow his own nature to carry out the will of the higher power.

----- Sri Ramana Maharshi

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gain great influence and to set the world in order

----- I Ching

Of this pure nature every man is at some time sensible. Language cannot paint it with his colors. It is too subtle. It is undefinable, unmeasurable, but we know that it pervades and contains us. We know that all spiritual being is in man.

--- Emerson

“Do what you came for, friend.”

---- Mathew

inner power is adequate to the increased outer 
activity

----I Ching

Day or night, it matters never,
I will praise man's earthly fate;
Thinking righteous thought, forever
He'll have beauty, he'll be great.

---- Goethe

“A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”

--- Kings

A place of transition has been reached

----I Ching

All who draw the sword will die by the sword. 

---- Mathew  


“If only you had seen all I had to do.” The child
wants this observation. We all want this. This means
that when you learn to observe the child, when you
have assimilated all that it means to observe the
child, you learn many things that are not in books —
educational or psychological. And when you have
done this you will learn to have more diffidence and
more distrust of rapid assessments, tests, judgments

---- Malaguzzi 

soar to the heights

---I Ching

Pointing upward and below, I hover for a happy view, 

Charmed by all the colors' glow, 

I find refreshment in the blue.  

---- Goethe

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

--- Mathew

hero or holy sage

---- I Ching

The child wants to be observed, but she doesn’t want
to be judged. Even when we do judge, things escape
us, we do not see things, so we are not able to evaluate in a wide way.. This system of observing children
carries you into many different feelings and thoughts,
into a kind of teaching full of uncertainty and doubt,
and it takes wisdom and a great deal of knowledge
on the part of the teachers to be able to work within
this situation of uncertainty.

---- Malaguzzi



Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven.

---- Mathew




Flying dragon in the heavens

---- I Ching

Achievement lives in ancient story,
Grows deathless now in noble deed.

---- Goethe

we will treat you kindly and in good faith.

---- Joshua




attained the sphere of the heavenly beings


---- I Ching


A generous person will prosper;
whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.---- 

Proverbs/Mashal







finding the way that is appropriate

---  I Ching


The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

---- Mark


The treasure then is to be found not merely near
those who study poetry and religion, but within every
human being. This miracle is sent to all ; the represen-
tative of this tremendous force is to be found everywhere.
Man makes a desert of strife and God continues to send
this rain. So it is easy to understand that all the
creations of adults, great achievements as they are,
without love lead nowhere, to nothing. But if this love
present in the child is taken among us, if its values and
potentialities are realized and developed, our achieve-
ments, already great, will be tremendous.

---- Montessori

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the movement of heaven

---- I Ching

 Elijah took twelve stones

---- Kings


Spare no effort to devote yourself to this task, follow the subsequent transformations of the spontaneous fantasy attentively and carefully.

--- Jung

“Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

--- Mathew



his influence may endure

---- I Ching

And this because the heart in thee is the heart in all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men as water of the globe is all one sea and, truly seen, its tide is one.

---- Emerson

“Fill four large jars with water”

---- Kings

the electrically charged, 
dynamic, arousing force that manifests itself in the thunderstorm

---- I Ching

It stirs and it stirs not; it is far, and likewise near. It is inside of all this, and it is outside of all this.

---- Isaa Upanishad

the creative 
forces on earth begin to stir again

----  I Ching

 licked up the water in the trench

----- Kings

he bides his time

----  I Ching

“may your will be done.”

---- Mathew

wait in the calm strength of patience

---- I Ching

He left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

---- Mathew

The time will fulfill itself.

----  I Ching


 “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”

---- Kings

A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us, that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that our painful labors are unnecessary, and fruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong, and by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine. 

---- Emerson





the main thing is not to expend one's powers prematurely in an attempt to obtain 
by force something for which the time is not yet ripe.

---- I Ching


An interval must separate the present from what it is not in order for the present to be itself, but this interval that constitutes it as present must, by the same token, divide the present in and of itself, thereby also dividing, along with the present, everything that is thought on the basis of the present, that is, in our metaphysical language, every being, and singularly substance or the subject. In constituting itself, in dividing itself dynamically, this interval is what might be called spacing, the becoming-space of time or the becoming-time of space (temporization).

---- Derrida

Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
    on earth as it is in heaven.

---- Mathew

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The beginning of all things lies still in the beyond in the form of ideas that have yet to become real.

—-  I Ching

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment..

—- Emerson

The clouds pass and the rain does its work, and all individual beings flow into their forms.

—- I Ching

May my teaching fall like rain.

—- Deuteronomy

Like mountains veiled by water and sky

—- John Ashbery

the way to success lies in apprehending and  
giving actuality to the way of the universe [Tao]

—-  I Ching

The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall

—- Mathew

When the release takes place, whatever is born in the mind explodes like a volcanic eruption or spills out like lightning. Zen calls this ‘return to self’ . . . 

—- D.T. Suzuki

Time is no longer a hindrance but the means of making actual what is potential.

—-  I Ching

spreads out her wings, takes them
and carries them as she flies.

—- Deuteronomy

destiny is what happens. There is no thwarting of destiny.Each moment contains the whole of the past and creates the whole of the future.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

the work of conservation is shown to be a continuous  
actualization and differentiation of form

—-  I Ching

in a land of grain and new wine,
where the skies drip with dew.

—- Deuteronomy

.I may perceive the world just like you, but you believe to be in it, while I see it as an iridescent drop in the vast expanse of consciousness.

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

In considering the symbolism of the bath, comparison can be made with all the different baptismal rites which we have in our own religion and in pre-Christian rituals.

—- Marie-Louise von Franz

The attribute 
furthering is correlated with justice, which creates the conditions in which 
each receives that which accords with his being, that which is due him and which constitutes his happiness.

—- I Ching

When you are giddy, you see the world running circles round you. Obsessed with the idea of means and end, of work and purpose, you see me apparently functioning. In reality I only look. Whatever is done, is done on the stage

—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj / Maurice Frydman 

And when you look at the Zaddik, he actually stands beyond the law and all limitations. Everywhere in everything that we will come to hear of the teachings of the Zaddik it can be said that this is the prototype of the doctrine of the individual. He is the only one who is able to be an authentic human being. This is the precursor of that which appears in the process of individuation as finding one’s own way to the law.

—- Eric Neumann

 in the Eleusynian mysteries the participants went first to the sea to take a ritual bath.

—–  Marie-Louise von Franz

Clarifying the meaning of our
presence and our being with children is something
that is vital for the child. When the child sees that the
adult is there, totally involved with the child, the
child doesn’t forget. This is something that’s right for
us and it’s right for the children.

—- Malaguzzi