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Markings

di Dag Hammarskjold Vintage Spiritual Classics, 2006

The diary of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, Nobel Peace Prize winner in memory (1961). With a preface by Jimmy Carter. Foreword by  W. H. Auden. 

Universally known and admired as a peacemaker, Dag Hammarskjöld concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964.

Markings is distinctive, as W.H. Auden remarks in his foreword, as a record of "the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the via activa and the via contemplativa." It reflects its author's efforts to live his creed, his belief that all men are equally the children of God and that faith and love require of him a life of selfless service to others. For Hammarskjöld, "the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." Markings is not only a fascinating glimpse of the mind of a great man, but also a moving spiritual classic that has left its mark on generations of readers.

"Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century" — The New York Times

Taken from the back cover

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