Dag Hammarskjöld said this quote

“ A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses, that has wasted itself on 'treasons, stratagems and spoils'--of importance only within four walls. A tame animal--in whom the strength of the species has outspent itself, to no purpose. ”

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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