Quotations

Dag Hammarskjold

Dag HammarskjoldIt is not sufficient to place yourself daily under God. What really matters is to be only under God: the slightest division of allegiance opens the door to day-dreaming, petty conversation, petty boasting, petty malice – all the petty satellites of the death-instinct.

"But how, then, am I to love God? You must love Him as if He were a Non-God, a Non-Spirit, a Non-Person, a Non-Substance: love Him simply as the One, the Pure and absolute Unity in which is no trace of Duality. And into this One, we must let ourselves fall continually from being into non-being. God helps us to do this."

Dag Hammarskjold (Swedish diplomat, economist, mystic, author and second General Secretary of the United Nations)