2024 (#108) : I Ching , Derrida , Joseph Campbell , Song of Songs , ee cummings , Gospel of Mathew , Book of Isaiah , Malaguzzi , Deleuze , Ecclesiastes , Bhagavad Gita

The way to study the past is not to confine 
oneself to mere knowledge of history but, through application of this 
knowledge, to give actuality to the past.

---I Ching
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

— Derrida


The individual has to find an aspect of myth that relates to his own life...You are always addressing the transcendent mystery through the conditions of your actual world. 

---- Joseph Campbell
Tell me, you whom my soul loves,    where you pasture your flock

— Song of Songs


Heaven within the mountain points to hidden treasures.

---I Ching


around me surges a miracle of unceasing
birth and glory and death and resurrection:
over my sleeping self float flaming symbols
of hope, and i wake to a perfect patience of mountains

—  ee cummings



…  just as he came up from the water …

— Mathew



You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace

--- Isaiah



Heaven within the mountain:
The image of THE TAMING POWER OF THE GREAT

--- I Ching

The child wants to know that she is observed, carefully, with full attention.

---- Malaguzzi

Why do I now underscore that expression: “what is happening?” Because for me this belongs to the order of the absolutely unforeseeable, which is always the condition of any event. Even when it seems to go back to a buried past, what comes about always comes from the future.

---- Derrida


Such a man is in harmony with heaven

--- I Ching

she was found to be pregnant from the Holy Spirit.

— Mathew


The eternal return as law of becoming, as justice and as being.

— Deleuze



earn one's bread by entering upon
public office

--- I Ching



Whoever eats my flesh...

---- John

God keeps them occupied with the joy of their hearts.

— Ecclesiastes


proceeds straight on the path of liberation


---- Bhagavad Gita



It requires a shift in the role of the teacher from an emphasis of teaching to an emphasis on learning


---- Malaguzzi

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