MarkingsBallantine Books, 1982 - 195 sidor Dag Hammarskjold 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. Hammarskjold himself described the manuscript as a "sort of white book concerning my negotiations with myself and with God." The first entry is a poem written about 1925; the notes made during the 1940's and 1950's reflect a period of constant spiritual growth, self-questioning, and resolution; and the book ends with a poem he wrote only a few weeks before his death. In Markings Hammarskjold felt that he gave the only true profile of himself. Lacking as it does any reference to the external world, the book constitutes only haft a portrait, as W. H. Auden points out in his Foreword. But as we read it, the outer image of the Secretary-General persists and heightens the sense of loneliness Hammarskjold 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 Many will read this book primarily as a unique historical document; many will find in its meditations an unusual devotional book.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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... wishes to hear . And it is not long before he develops a paranoid suspicion of everyone else , combined with a cynical ... wish ( not , perhaps , without an element of narcissistic masochism ) , and the animal fear arising from the ...
... wishes to hear . And it is not long before he develops a paranoid suspicion of everyone else , combined with a cynical ... wish ( not , perhaps , without an element of narcissistic masochism ) , and the animal fear arising from the ...
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... wish lack the one opponent which is stronger than they - love . Love , which is without an object , the outflowing of a power released by self - surrender , but which would re- main a sublime sort of superhuman self - assertion ...
... wish lack the one opponent which is stronger than they - love . Love , which is without an object , the outflowing of a power released by self - surrender , but which would re- main a sublime sort of superhuman self - assertion ...
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... wish is to have scribbled on the wall our " Kilroy was here . " The last ditch of the enemy . We can sacrifice our- selves completely to that which is beyond and above us - and still hope that the memory of our choice shall remain tied ...
... wish is to have scribbled on the wall our " Kilroy was here . " The last ditch of the enemy . We can sacrifice our- selves completely to that which is beyond and above us - and still hope that the memory of our choice shall remain tied ...
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answer become body Caesarea Philippi 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 God's gray Gunnar Ekelöf haiku Hammar hand happy heart hour human Karl Ragnar Gierow knew lack Leif light live loneliness look Lord mankind marskjöld 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 self-surrender sense silence Simone Weil skjöld skjöld's someone soul spiritual spite St.-John Perse stand strength Swedish Thee things Thomas à Kempis Thou thought tion translation trees truth unto victory W. H. AUDEN wave wind word