Markings

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)