Dag Hammarskjold, Gen Sec of the UN, died (killed?) Sept 18 1961. “I came to a time and place where I realized that the Way leads to a triumph which is a catastrophe and to a catastrophe which is a triumph, that the price for committing one’s life would be reproach,…
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…and that the only elevation possible to man lies in the depths of humiliation. After that, the word “courage” lost its meaning, since nothing could be taken from me.”
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Reading Hammarskjöld’s spiritual memoir even now: “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.”
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I can't remember how he died...was his death suspicious? I was in religious life and probably wasn't even aware he died
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Day Hammarskjold was my 1st spiritual guide. I discovered his Markings in my late teens and knew I had found my soul mate.
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