It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.
Dag HammarskjoldIt was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
Dag HammarskjoldOn the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
Dag HammarskjoldHumility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.
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