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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 Vägmärken · Markings (1963)

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

Vägmärken · Markings (1963)

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.

Vägmärken · Markings (1963)

Goodness is something so simple: always to live for others, never to seek one's own advantage.

Vägmärken · Markings (1963)

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.

Vägmärken · Markings (1963)

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Vägmärken · Markings (1963)

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

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