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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.

— Dag Hammarskjöld (via)  <link>

You are not the oil, you are not the air—merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself…you rob the lens of its transparency.

— Dag Hammarskjöld , a journal entry from Markings  <link>

Never, “for the sake of peace and quiet,” deny your own experience or convictions.

— Dag Hammarskjöld , a journal entry from Markings  <link>

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.

— Dag Hammarskjöld , a journal entry from Markings  <link>

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?

— Dag Hammarskjöld  <link>

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.

— Dag Hammarskjöld , a journal entry from Markings  <link>

Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.

— Dag Hammarskjöld  <link>

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.

— Dag Hammarskjöld  <link>