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It is always good to become still and let our
spirit rise above the clamour of the daily hubbub
that so busily entertains our mind and our
emotions. In fact, it is not only good, it is
necessary to, now and again, wrench ourselves away
from the myriad small importances occupying the
greater part of our existence. As human beings our
survival depends on the silence of reflection.
Many among us seek this silence as a daily, or
weekly, or occasional discipline. Many among us
need a time, a place, a prepared environment for
our silence to become functional, ridding us of the
accumulated detritus of daily living, and allowing
us to recommence, pristine and well-intentioned.
The clean slate, the blank page, the start from
zero.
For those who celebrate these days a new decade,
a new century, a new millennium, there is the
luxury of not one, not two, but three wonderful
zeros from which to start anew, looking back upon
three nines that filled the past to the brim, all
close and cluttered and fraught with the massive
accumulation of personal, historical, global
experience that, distilled, will fuel the
future.
AMI's mandate, like a mountain stream, springs
from an inexhaustible source. It flows around
rocks, through narrow gorges, under bridges. It
leaps down cliffs, meanders through meadows,
creates deep pools. The living water that nourishes
our work is the absolute, deeply-rooted,
ineradicable belief that in the child's potential
lies the future of an enlightened humanity.
Do join us, within or without the context of a
new year, a new century or a new millennium, in the
glorious task of keeping our intentions crystal
clear and simple, with faith, with enthusiasm and
with unending delight for ours is a joyful
venture.
Renilde
Montessori
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