MarkingsKnopf, 1964 - 222 sidor The author left behind the manuscript of this book to be published after his death. It is a remarkable record of the spiritual life of a man whose public image was universally known and admired--a record that reveals the extent of his commitment to the Way of the Cross. He felt he gave the only true profile of himself. Lacking as it does any reference to the external world, the book constitutes only half a portrait. But as we read it, the outer image of the Secretary-General persists and heightens the sense of loneliness he conveys, the severity with which he marked his own spiritual conduct and measured the integrity of his soul, his conception of life as a summons, and his premonition of death. Many will read this book primarily as a unique historical document; many will find in its meditations an unusual devotional book. But, above all, almost every reader is bound to feel, with Auden, that he has had "the privilege of being in contact with a great, good and lovable man." |
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Dag Hammarskjöld. FOREWORD To the symmetrical natures religion is indeed a crown of glory ; nevertheless , so far as this world is concerned , they can grow and prosper without it . But to the unsymmetrical natures religion is a ...
Dag Hammarskjöld. FOREWORD To the symmetrical natures religion is indeed a crown of glory ; nevertheless , so far as this world is concerned , they can grow and prosper without it . But to the unsymmetrical natures religion is a ...
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Dag Hammarskjöld. The extrahuman in the experience of the greatness of Nature . This does not allow itself to be reduced to an expression of our human reactions , nor can we share in it by expressing them . Unless we each find a way to ...
Dag Hammarskjöld. The extrahuman in the experience of the greatness of Nature . This does not allow itself to be reduced to an expression of our human reactions , nor can we share in it by expressing them . Unless we each find a way to ...
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... nature — that is to say , though it is not our nature , it is of it that something within us which rejoices when disaster befalls the very cause we are trying to serve , or misfortune overtakes even those whom we love . — Life in God is ...
... nature — that is to say , though it is not our nature , it is of it that something within us which rejoices when disaster befalls the very cause we are trying to serve , or misfortune overtakes even those whom we love . — Life in God is ...
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answer become believe body Caesarea Philippi consciousness courage created Dag Hammarskjöld dare dark dead death demands destiny Djuna Barnes drawing nigh dream earth empty entries Erik Lindegren eternal everything experience eyes faith fate fear feel forgive give goal God's gray haiku hand happy heart hour human Karl Ragnar Gierow knew lack Leif light live loneliness look Lord mankind meaning meet Meister Eckhart mind mirror morning naked never Night is drawing ourselves patience peace perhaps petty Phinehas play possible prayer pride Psalm reality responsibility rest road sacrifice sake say Yes seek sense silence Simone Weil simple someone soul spiritual St.-John Perse stand strength Swedish temptation Thee things Thomas à Kempis Thou thought translation trees truth ultimate gift unheard-of unto Uppsala victory W. H. Auden wave wind word