Dag Hammarskjöld said this quote

“ 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. ”

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When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld