Bandology

I recently bought a Dag Hammarskjold book, Markings. I first encountered Dag on a quote from the Ayala Young Leaders Congress.

Your own path
You will follow it
You own truth
You will discover it

This was quoted in the letter of Sir Monchito, the congress director of AYLC. I consider sir Monchito my guru in leadership,particularly servant leadership. He is our Master Yoda,the repository of wisdom through the years.

Markings is a diary posthumously published. It contains short bits of reflections, an internal struggle between God and man. There are also a bit of poetry, particularly haikus. Dag was fond of the seventeen syllable structure of the Japanese poetry.
Here are the quotes I find very interesting.

Do what you can-and the task will rest lightly in you hand, so light that you will be able to look forward to the more difficult task ahead of you.

Live you individuality to the fullest not for yourself but for the good of others.

You have never done enough as long as you can still contribute something of value.

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

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

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

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

How humble the tool when praised what the hand has done.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

Not I, but God in me.