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| Dag Hammarskjold
''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment. Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you
-- out of love - - takes upon himself the consequences of what you have
done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, 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. I don't know Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of
action.
-In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. It is so stupid of the twentieth century to have abandoned belief in the devil
when he is the only explanation for it.Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. -Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. -Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.Seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder. The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not iminished
by the indifference of others.The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.To be free, to be able to stand up and leave everything behind - without looking back. To say Yes.We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even
the most painful.
-What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. |
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