Author Archives: Laura Dobson

Imagine by John Lennon, released on this day in 1971, “Imagine there’s no heavenIt’s easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for today Imagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion, tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou You may say I’mContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 8th October”

“Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 7th October”

“Borders. I have never seen one, but I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.”Thor Heyerdahl (1914 – 2002), ethnographer and adventurer, born on this day

“Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 5th October”

St. Francis and the Wolf by Christine Valters Paintner“The city trembled at the wolfoutside its gates, fangsfierce, howling with hunger,fur thick with blood.Francis approaches softly,palms open. When the wolf lungeshis breath stays slow and steady,looks with eyes of love,smiles and bowsand the beast whimpers,licks the monk’s salty face,tail a brown banner waving,and follows Francisthrough theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 4th October”

“Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the GoodContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 3rd October”

“There are two days in the year that we cannot do anything, yesterday and tomorrow.”Mahātmā Gandhi (1869 – 1948), born on this day

“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.”The Bhagavad Gita

“I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other’s error and nobody discerns his own.”Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and physician, author of On the Errors of the Trinity, born on this dayContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 29th September”

“By three methods we may learn wisdom:First, by reflection, which is noblest;Second, by imitation, which is easiest;and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”Confucius, Chinese philosopher, born on this day in 551 BCE