You diss SAH, for bitterness - It would be hard for you to project your level of bitterness as well as what dead child would want to do do - feel. Personal growth for Clarke and ALL would be... GED, accepting the restricted environment he put himself in, using a part of his income to promote the lives of others in need - after all he is not working for it.... send 100 a month and mentor a youth. Not seek a women to love and kiss him. That is self centered ambitions. Much that physocapths do.
Nicki, I just have to comment here on a few things, my personal opinion as well as first hand knowledge, that you clearly don't have. As far as you being "a psychology and criminology student" (ha - excuse to cover the truth you can't admit out of shame, see people out here won't accept you if you simply say, I am writing this man, taken an interest) you said "It concerns me that if bloggers only receive negative comments, they will stop contributing here and I, and others, would lose their valuable contributions". Contribution to what? ALL they know is what is on TV. PERIOD.
Enlightenment? On WHAT? Commended for what?
What is their valuable contribution, Clarke for example? He contributes exactly what to the expansion of your mind, and learning? Do you know that most all he says about the abuse there is false?? Heighten security? Is because he attempted to escape - his "wife" is in prison now, the endless things he has done to violate the rules there..... as well as this blog. Did you know they are not allowed to solicit money and pen pals, yet he slyly continues to use this blog venue as a direct measure to meet his personal needs. Valuable contribution? Grade school thoughts, art, waste of tax payer money, lies. Do you think these men made a vaulable contribution to society or can? ha.
These people are lost, have been and will remain so, there is a reason society has cast them away, for the safety of the contributing citizens.
Their only hope is God and.... instead they seek pen pals, money,. scamming women. You say he may never had any kindness, how little you know about this particular inmate, or how life really revolves for caged animals. You made a miserable comment here for his mother to read. Shame on you.
“Public debate in the United Nations is dominated by the same differences among the parties as international political life as a whole. But behind closed doors these differences are diluted. The human factor carries more weight there, and confidential exchanges are possible even across frontiers which otherwise appear impassable.” – From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld to the Students Association in Copenhagen, 2 May 1959 (Falkman 2005, p. 136).
“Sometimes one gets the impression that the Congo operation is looked at as being in the hands of the Secretary-General, as somehow distinct from the United Nations. No: this is your operation, gentlemen.” – From statement by Dag Hammarskjöld in front of the General Assembly, 26 September 1960 (Falkman 2005, p. 82).
“By resigning, I would, therefore, at the present difficult and dangerous juncture throw the Organization to the winds. I have no right to do so because I have a responsibility to all those Member States for which the Organization is of decisive importance, a responsibility which overrides all other considerations.
It is not the Soviet Union or, indeed, any other big powers who need the United Nations for their protection; it is all the others. In this sense the Organization is first of all their Organization, and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.
In this context the representative of the Soviet Union spoke of courage. It is very easy to resign; it is not so easy to stay on. It is very easy to bow to the wish of a big power. It is another matter to resist. As is well known to all members of this Assembly, I have done so before on many occasions and in many directions. If it is the wish of those nations who see in the Organization their best protection in the present world, I shall now do so again.” – From statement by Dag Hammarskjöld in the General Assembly in response to the Soviet Union’s accusations that he was biased and did not have the courage to resign, 3 October 1960 (Falkman 2005, p. 86).
References
Falkman, K. (2005). To speak for the world: Speeches and Statements by Dag Hammarskjöld. Stockholm: Atlantis.
“The very rules of the game, and the specific position of the Secretariat inside the system, force the Secretariat in its activities as representative of the Organization as a whole to apply what is now often called quiet diplomacy. […] In the General Assembly, as well as in the Councils, open debate is the rule. […] They have introduced a new instrument of negotiation, that of conference diplomacy. This instrument has many advantages. […] But it has, also, weaknesses. There is the temptation to play to the gallery at the expense of solid construction. And there is the risk that positions once taken publicly become frozen, making a compromise more difficult.” – From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the University of California, Berkeley, 25 June 1955 (Falkman 2005, pp. 131–132).
“Chou En-Lai stands out as the most superior brain I have found in the field of foreign policy”. – From a private letter by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1955 (Falkman 2005, pp. 43–44).
“The principles of [the Charter of the United Nations] are, by far, greater than the Organization in which they are embodied, and the aims which they are to safeguard are holier than the policies of any single nation or people.” – Statement by Dag Hammarskjöld in the General Assembly, 31 October 1956 (Falkman 2005, p. 28).
“True collective security, in the sense of an international police power engaged to defend the peace of the world, is to be found at the end, not at the beginning, of the effort to create and use world institutions that are effective in the service of the common interest.” – From a speech by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1956 (Falkman 2005, p. 35).
“We should, rather, recognize the United Nations for what it is – an admittedly imperfect but indispensable instrument of nations working for a peace evolution towards a more just and secure world order.” – Dag Hammarskjöld’s words from the introduction to the UN annual report 1956/1957 (Falkman 2005, p. 69).
“[…] United Nations itself as an experiment in international organization. […] The United Nations is something definite also in the sense that the concepts and ideals it represents, like the needs it tries to meet, will remain an ineluctable element of the world picture.” – From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld in front of the American Jewish Committee, 10 April 1957 (Falkman 2005, pp. 68–69).
“It is easy to turn the responsibility over to others or, perhaps, to seek explanations in some kind of laws of history. It is less easy to look for the reasons within ourselves or in a field where we, all of us, carry major responsibility. However, such a search is necessary, because finally it is only within ourselves and in such fields that we can hope, by our own actions, to make a valid contribution to a turn of the trend of events.” – From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the University of Cambridge, 5 June 1958 (Falkman 2005, p. 193).
Quotes by Hammarskjöld from: http://www.daghammarskjold.se/quotes/
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“In my new official capacity the private man should disappear and the international public servant take his place.” – From a statement by Dag Hammarskjöld in front of the press when he arrived in New York, 9 April 1953 (Falkman 2005, p. 63).
“For some people the driving force in life is faith in the success of their efforts. For others it is simply a sense of duty. We need both types of men.” – From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the University of California, Berkeley, 13 May 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 208).
“Too often our learning, our knowledge, and our mastery are too much concentrated on techniques and we forget about man himself.” – From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at Amherst College, 13 June 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 207).
“Modern art teaches us to see by forcing us to use our senses, our intellect and our sensibility to follow it on its road of exploration.” – From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 19 October 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 220).
“A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcome and valuable, but it does not free him from responsibility. Therefore, he may become very lonely.” – From Dag Hammarskjöld’s inaugural address at the Swedish Academy, 20 December 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 203).
“From generations of soldiers and government officials on my father’s side I inherited a belief that no life was more satisfactory than one of selfless service to your country – or humanity.” – From the radio speech “This I Believe” by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 58).
“The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.” – From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the Johns Hopkins University, 14 June 1955 (Falkman 2005, pp. 199–200).
I was going to just copy and paste an article about Tong Phuoc Phuc here, but I'm unsure of the copyright status, so I'll just try to summarize.
Here are some links, maybe useful in the future: http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/blog/2012/05/18/tong-phuoc-phuc-father-vietnam http://eyedrd.org/2012/06/tong-phuoc-phuc-a-man-with-a-golden-heart-has-taken-care-of-more-than-100-abandoned-babies.html
Tong Phuoc Phuc, of Vietnam, was struck with the number of abortions that appeared to happen just during the time of his own wife's delivery in the hospital. "I was wondering, where are the babies?" he said, watching women enter the delivery room and return alone. 'Then I realized they had abortions.'
Because his wife had a difficult delivery, he made a promise with God that if his wife survived, he would find some way to help. At first, he simply bought a piece of land where he could give each fetus a proper burial. He would pick up the remains from hospitals and abortion clinics. He has buried over 10,000 such fetuses.
Women who had gone through an abortion themselves, heard of this small cemetery and came there to pray. Soon, women who were only considering abortions came to him, and he welcomed them into his own home.
He has been adopting unwanted children and from the counts I have seen, has adopted 19 as his own, giving them his own surname, but he has helped over 100, his goal being to reunite the babies with their mothers if possible.
He was not a rich man by any means, being a construction worker, and his wife running a small stall (I'm assuming in the market). From the video I've seen, it's a pretty cramped little apartment, full of babies. Sometimes he has had to borrow money to pay for food. But people have helped him, and donations have come from as far away as the US.
"No matter how good I am, it would not be as good as real mother’s love. So every time a mother came back, I would be very glad," he said.
When I first saw the video, I was awestruck. This is an example that has stayed with me, and points to a better way, in my opinion, of handling the abortion issue.
You also wrote: "They will force a woman to give birth to an unwanted child, and then refuse to help her raise him."
This is an excellent point, and I think that those folks, such as myself, who are against abortion, should look toward ways of helping and supporting those mothers who need it, both before birth and after.
If there were a multitude of standing offers from willing families around the world to adopt any "unwanted child" instead of aborting it, no-questions-asked, that would be a greater witness against abortion than all the laws that could be written against it.
We should be running to the adoption agencies with empty cradles to be filled, rather than running to the abortion clinics with pitchforks.
I wonder if that particular translation of Exodus 21:22 may be causing a misinterpretation.
In the KJV, it says:
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
What if "yet no mischief follow" means that the baby did not die, only that the birth was premature? And if the birth was premature, but no other harm was done, then a fine was still levied.
But if the baby died, then "life for life."
It doesn't make much sense to repeat the "eye for eye" command as a special case for a pregnant woman. Eye for eye would have applied to any woman, not just a pregnant one. But it does make sense to have a special case in law to clarify the case of a premature birth, and have it apply to the baby.
Do we not also condemn (however mildly) the use of drugs and alcohol by pregnant women in our own society? And we condemn that, or at least warn against it, because of the future harm it could cause to the baby, either in physical or mental deformities. If something happened during pregnancy that directly affected the physical or mental abilities of the newborn child, wouldn't we naturally think there would be some kind of liability?
If two men were fighting, and by their carelessness struck my pregnant wife, then even if there were no premature birth, nor lasting harm, I'd still feel wronged enough to think a fine was just, simply for the fact that they struck my wife, even if I might ultimately forgive them in the end. But if my unborn son was dead because of the carelessness of two random thugs, I'd want more than just a fine.
Would you not feel the same about your wife and son?
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. The second Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. Hammarskjöld remains the only U.N. Secretary-General to die in office, and his death occurred en route to cease-fire negotiations. American President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld “the greatest statesman of our century"
In 1953, soon after his appointment as United Nations secretary general, Hammarskjöld was interviewed on radio by Edward R. Murrow. In this talk he declared: "But the explanation of how man should live a life of active social service in full harmony with himself as a member of the community of spirit, I found in the writings of those great medieval mystics [Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruysbroek] for whom 'self-surrender' had been the way to self-realization, and who in 'singleness of mind' and 'inwardness' had found strength to say yes to every demand which the needs of their neighbours made them face, and to say yes also to every fate life had in store for them when they followed the call of duty as they understood it."
His only book, Vägmärken (Markings), was published in 1963. A collection of his diary reflections, the book starts in 1925, when he was 20 years old, and ends at his death in 1961. This diary was found in his New York house, after his death, along with an undated letter addressed to then Swedish Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Leif Belfrage. In this letter, Dag writes, "These entries provide the only true 'profile' that can be drawn ... If you find them worth publishing, you have my permission to do so". The foreword is written by W.H. Auden, a friend of Dag's. Markings was described by a theologian, the late Henry P. Van Dusen, as "the noblest self-disclosure of spiritual struggle and triumph, perhaps the greatest testament of personal faith written ... in the heat of professional life and amidst the most exacting responsibilities for world peace and order." Hammarskjöld writes, for example, "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. He who wills adventure will experience it — according to the measure of his courage. He who wills sacrifice will be sacrificed — according to the measure of his purity of heart." Markings is characterised by Hammarskjöld's intermingling of prose and haiku poetry in a manner exemplified by the 17th-century Japanese poet Basho in his Narrow Roads to the Deep North. In his foreword to Markings, the English poet W. H. Auden quotes Hammarskjöld as stating "In our age, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."
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Personal growth for Clarke and ALL would be... GED, accepting the restricted environment he put himself in, using a part of his income to promote the lives of others in need - after all he is not working for it.... send 100 a month and mentor a youth. Not seek a women to love and kiss him. That is self centered ambitions. Much that physocapths do.
Enlightenment? On WHAT? Commended for what?
What is their valuable contribution, Clarke for example? He contributes exactly what to the expansion of your mind, and learning? Do you know that most all he says about the abuse there is false?? Heighten security? Is because he attempted to escape - his "wife" is in prison now, the endless things he has done to violate the rules there..... as well as this blog. Did you know they are not allowed to solicit money and pen pals, yet he slyly continues to use this blog venue as a direct measure to meet his personal needs. Valuable contribution? Grade school thoughts, art, waste of tax payer money, lies. Do you think these men made a vaulable contribution to society or can? ha.
These people are lost, have been and will remain so, there is a reason society has cast them away, for the safety of the contributing citizens.
Their only hope is God and.... instead they seek pen pals, money,. scamming women. You say he may never had any kindness, how little you know about this particular inmate, or how life really revolves for caged animals. You made a miserable comment here for his mother to read. Shame on you.
“Public debate in the United Nations is dominated by the same differences among the parties as international political life as a whole. But behind closed doors these differences are diluted. The human factor carries more weight there, and confidential exchanges are possible even across frontiers which otherwise appear impassable.”
– From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld to the Students Association in Copenhagen, 2 May 1959 (Falkman 2005, p. 136).
“Sometimes one gets the impression that the Congo operation is looked at as being in the hands of the Secretary-General, as somehow distinct from the United Nations. No: this is your operation, gentlemen.”
– From statement by Dag Hammarskjöld in front of the General Assembly, 26 September 1960 (Falkman 2005, p. 82).
“By resigning, I would, therefore, at the present difficult and dangerous juncture throw the Organization to the winds. I have no right to do so because I have a responsibility to all those Member States for which the Organization is of decisive importance, a responsibility which overrides all other considerations.
It is not the Soviet Union or, indeed, any other big powers who need the United Nations for their protection; it is all the others. In this sense the Organization is first of all their Organization, and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.
In this context the representative of the Soviet Union spoke of courage. It is very easy to resign; it is not so easy to stay on. It is very easy to bow to the wish of a big power. It is another matter to resist. As is well known to all members of this Assembly, I have done so before on many occasions and in many directions. If it is the wish of those nations who see in the Organization their best protection in the present world, I shall now do so again.”
– From statement by Dag Hammarskjöld in the General Assembly in response to the Soviet Union’s accusations that he was biased and did not have the courage to resign, 3 October 1960 (Falkman 2005, p. 86).
References
Falkman, K. (2005). To speak for the world: Speeches and Statements by Dag Hammarskjöld. Stockholm: Atlantis.
“The very rules of the game, and the specific position of the Secretariat inside the system, force the Secretariat in its activities as representative of the Organization as a whole to apply what is now often called quiet diplomacy. […] In the General Assembly, as well as in the Councils, open debate is the rule. […] They have introduced a new instrument of negotiation, that of conference diplomacy. This instrument has many advantages. […] But it has, also, weaknesses. There is the temptation to play to the gallery at the expense of solid construction. And there is the risk that positions once taken publicly become frozen, making a compromise more difficult.”
– From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the University of California, Berkeley, 25 June 1955 (Falkman 2005, pp. 131–132).
“Chou En-Lai stands out as the most superior brain I have found in the field of foreign policy”.
– From a private letter by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1955 (Falkman 2005, pp. 43–44).
“The principles of [the Charter of the United Nations] are, by far, greater than the Organization in which they are embodied, and the aims which they are to safeguard are holier than the policies of any single nation or people.”
– Statement by Dag Hammarskjöld in the General Assembly, 31 October 1956 (Falkman 2005, p. 28).
“True collective security, in the sense of an international police power engaged to defend the peace of the world, is to be found at the end, not at the beginning, of the effort to create and use world institutions that are effective in the service of the common interest.”
– From a speech by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1956 (Falkman 2005, p. 35).
“We should, rather, recognize the United Nations for what it is – an admittedly imperfect but indispensable instrument of nations working for a peace evolution towards a more just and secure world order.”
– Dag Hammarskjöld’s words from the introduction to the UN annual report 1956/1957 (Falkman 2005, p. 69).
“[…] United Nations itself as an experiment in international organization. […] The United Nations is something definite also in the sense that the concepts and ideals it represents, like the needs it tries to meet, will remain an ineluctable element of the world picture.”
– From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld in front of the American Jewish Committee, 10 April 1957 (Falkman 2005, pp. 68–69).
“It is easy to turn the responsibility over to others or, perhaps, to seek explanations in some kind of laws of history. It is less easy to look for the reasons within ourselves or in a field where we, all of us, carry major responsibility. However, such a search is necessary, because finally it is only within ourselves and in such fields that we can hope, by our own actions, to make a valid contribution to a turn of the trend of events.”
– From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the University of Cambridge, 5 June 1958 (Falkman 2005, p. 193).
Part 1 of 3
“In my new official capacity the private man should disappear and the international public servant take his place.”
– From a statement by Dag Hammarskjöld in front of the press when he arrived in New York, 9 April 1953 (Falkman 2005, p. 63).
“For some people the driving force in life is faith in the success of their efforts. For others it is simply a sense of duty. We need both types of men.”
– From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the University of California, Berkeley, 13 May 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 208).
“Too often our learning, our knowledge, and our mastery are too much concentrated on techniques and we forget about man himself.”
– From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at Amherst College, 13 June 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 207).
“Modern art teaches us to see by forcing us to use our senses, our intellect and our sensibility to follow it on its road of exploration.”
– From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 19 October 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 220).
“A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcome and valuable, but it does not free him from responsibility. Therefore, he may become very lonely.”
– From Dag Hammarskjöld’s inaugural address at the Swedish Academy, 20 December 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 203).
“From generations of soldiers and government officials on my father’s side I inherited a belief that no life was more satisfactory than one of selfless service to your country – or humanity.”
– From the radio speech “This I Believe” by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1954 (Falkman 2005, p. 58).
“The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.”
– From speech by Dag Hammarskjöld at the Johns Hopkins University, 14 June 1955 (Falkman 2005, pp. 199–200).
Here are some links, maybe useful in the future:
http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/blog/2012/05/18/tong-phuoc-phuc-father-vietnam
http://eyedrd.org/2012/06/tong-phuoc-phuc-a-man-with-a-golden-heart-has-taken-care-of-more-than-100-abandoned-babies.html
Tong Phuoc Phuc, of Vietnam, was struck with the number of abortions that appeared to happen just during the time of his own wife's delivery in the hospital. "I was wondering, where are the babies?" he said, watching women enter the delivery room and return alone. 'Then I realized they had abortions.'
Because his wife had a difficult delivery, he made a promise with God that if his wife survived, he would find some way to help. At first, he simply bought a piece of land where he could give each fetus a proper burial. He would pick up the remains from hospitals and abortion clinics. He has buried over 10,000 such fetuses.
Women who had gone through an abortion themselves, heard of this small cemetery and came there to pray. Soon, women who were only considering abortions came to him, and he welcomed them into his own home.
He has been adopting unwanted children and from the counts I have seen, has adopted 19 as his own, giving them his own surname, but he has helped over 100, his goal being to reunite the babies with their mothers if possible.
He was not a rich man by any means, being a construction worker, and his wife running a small stall (I'm assuming in the market). From the video I've seen, it's a pretty cramped little apartment, full of babies. Sometimes he has had to borrow money to pay for food. But people have helped him, and donations have come from as far away as the US.
"No matter how good I am, it would not be as good as real mother’s love. So every time a mother came back, I would be very glad," he said.
When I first saw the video, I was awestruck. This is an example that has stayed with me, and points to a better way, in my opinion, of handling the abortion issue.
This is an excellent point, and I think that those folks, such as myself, who are against abortion, should look toward ways of helping and supporting those mothers who need it, both before birth and after.
If there were a multitude of standing offers from willing families around the world to adopt any "unwanted child" instead of aborting it, no-questions-asked, that would be a greater witness against abortion than all the laws that could be written against it.
We should be running to the adoption agencies with empty cradles to be filled, rather than running to the abortion clinics with pitchforks.
In the KJV, it says:
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
What if "yet no mischief follow" means that the baby did not die, only that the birth was premature? And if the birth was premature, but no other harm was done, then a fine was still levied.
But if the baby died, then "life for life."
It doesn't make much sense to repeat the "eye for eye" command as a special case for a pregnant woman. Eye for eye would have applied to any woman, not just a pregnant one. But it does make sense to have a special case in law to clarify the case of a premature birth, and have it apply to the baby.
Do we not also condemn (however mildly) the use of drugs and alcohol by pregnant women in our own society? And we condemn that, or at least warn against it, because of the future harm it could cause to the baby, either in physical or mental deformities. If something happened during pregnancy that directly affected the physical or mental abilities of the newborn child, wouldn't we naturally think there would be some kind of liability?
If two men were fighting, and by their carelessness struck my pregnant wife, then even if there were no premature birth, nor lasting harm, I'd still feel wronged enough to think a fine was just, simply for the fact that they struck my wife, even if I might ultimately forgive them in the end. But if my unborn son was dead because of the carelessness of two random thugs, I'd want more than just a fine.
Would you not feel the same about your wife and son?
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author. The second Secretary-General of the United Nations, he served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. Hammarskjöld remains the only U.N. Secretary-General to die in office, and his death occurred en route to cease-fire negotiations. American President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld “the greatest statesman of our century"
In 1953, soon after his appointment as United Nations secretary general, Hammarskjöld was interviewed on radio by Edward R. Murrow. In this talk he declared: "But the explanation of how man should live a life of active social service in full harmony with himself as a member of the community of spirit, I found in the writings of those great medieval mystics [Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruysbroek] for whom 'self-surrender' had been the way to self-realization, and who in 'singleness of mind' and 'inwardness' had found strength to say yes to every demand which the needs of their neighbours made them face, and to say yes also to every fate life had in store for them when they followed the call of duty as they understood it."
His only book, Vägmärken (Markings), was published in 1963. A collection of his diary reflections, the book starts in 1925, when he was 20 years old, and ends at his death in 1961. This diary was found in his New York house, after his death, along with an undated letter addressed to then Swedish Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Leif Belfrage. In this letter, Dag writes, "These entries provide the only true 'profile' that can be drawn ... If you find them worth publishing, you have my permission to do so". The foreword is written by W.H. Auden, a friend of Dag's. Markings was described by a theologian, the late Henry P. Van Dusen, as "the noblest self-disclosure of spiritual struggle and triumph, perhaps the greatest testament of personal faith written ... in the heat of professional life and amidst the most exacting responsibilities for world peace and order." Hammarskjöld writes, for example, "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. He who wills adventure will experience it — according to the measure of his courage. He who wills sacrifice will be sacrificed — according to the measure of his purity of heart." Markings is characterised by Hammarskjöld's intermingling of prose and haiku poetry in a manner exemplified by the 17th-century Japanese poet Basho in his Narrow Roads to the Deep North. In his foreword to Markings, the English poet W. H. Auden quotes Hammarskjöld as stating "In our age, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."