DAG
HAMMARSKOLD
(Swedish General Secretary of the United Nations who died in
1961 under suspicious circumstances. The authorities have just re-opened
that investigation in March of 2015.)
QUOTES FROM HIS BOOK “MARKINGS”
There is only one path out of the
steamy dense jungle where the battle is fought over glory and power and
advantage - one escape from the snares and obstacles you yourself have set up.
and that is - to accept death. (1941)
Openness to life grants a lightning-swift
insight into the life situation of others. What is necessary? - to wrestle with
your problem until its emotional discomfort is clearly conceived in an
intellectual form - and then set accordingly. (1942)
God does not die on the day when
we cease to believe in a personal diety, but we die on the day when our lives
cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the
source of which is beyond all reason. (1950)
"Thy Will be done" - to let the inner take
precedence over the outer, the soul over the world - wherever this may
lead you. And, lest a worldy good should disguise itself as spiritual, to make
yourself blind to the value the life of the spirit can bestow upon life in this
world. (1952)
