Author Archives: veerjih

“I find that quakerism and research science fit together very, very well. In quakerism you’re expected to develop your own understanding of god from your experience in the world. There isn’t a creed, there isn’t a dogma. There’s an understanding but nothing as formal as a dogma or creed and this idea that you developContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 15th July”

“I have hoped as many hopes and dreamed so many dreams, seen them swept aside by weather, and blown away by men, washed away in my own mistakes, that — I use to wonder if it wouldn’t be better just to haul off and quit hoping. Just protect my own inner brain, my own mindContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 14th July”

“Willa Cather’s poem, “I Sought the Wood in Summer,” tells of its protagonist despairing during the hot months. The trees tremble beautifully in the light, the daffodils glisten, yet every breath Beauty “gives the vagrant summer but swifter woos her death.” It’s not until the poet returns to the wood in winter that she seesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 13th July”

“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862),Continue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 12th July”

Feast Day of St Benedict “Let all guests who arrive be received as Christ, because He will say: “I was a stranger and you took Me in” (Mt 25:35)… And above all let care be scrupulously shewn in receiving the poor and strangers; for in them specially is Christ received.” From The Rule of St.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 11th July”

“The creation and the Creator are not two. Just as all golden jewelry is nothing but gold, just as all earthen pots are essentially nothing but clay, just as every wave is basically water, so too it is the Creator that has become this world.” Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, known as Amma

“I stand on the edge of myself and wonder where is home?Oh, where is the place where beauty will last?When will I be safe? And where? My tourist heart is wearing me out.I am so tired of seeking for treasures that tarnish.How much longer, Lord?Oh, which way is home?My luggage is heavy. It is weighingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 9th July”

“When we look deeply into others, we’re looking deeply into ourselves at the same time. If we think the other person is someone other than us, that their success or failure has nothing to do with us, then we have not been successful in our looking deeply. The happiness of that person is linked toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 8th July”

“There was an Old Woman lived under the hillAnd if she’s not gone, she lives there still – traditional British rhyme Feminine and masculine are the left and right hands of God. We have only recently begun to remember the divine feminine and to respect her again, but she has never been far from us.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 7th July”

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinkingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 6th July”