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“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to riskContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 19th May”

“When we feel that we’re fragile, not stable or solid, we can come back to ourselves and take refuge in the earth. With each step we can feel her solidity beneath our feet. When we’re truly in touch with the earth, we can feel her supportive embrace and her stability. We use our whole bodyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 18th May”

“God neither heeds nor needs vigils, fasting, prayer, and all forms of mortification in contrast to repose. God needs nothing more than for us to offer him a quiet heart. Then he accomplishes in the soul such secrets and divine deeds that no creature can serve them or even add to them… The divine natureContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 17th May”

International Day of Living Together in Peace “Here’s to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. LookContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 16th May”

“I feel carried away and possessed by an unutterable rapture over the divine spectacle of heavenly harmony.” German astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third of his three planetary laws, the “harmonic law”, on this day in 1618

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If youContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 14th May”

“Our bodies produce a constant rhythm, which may explain why some small children and animals sleep better next to a ticking clock or metronome. Perhaps Shakespeare’s poetry is so timeless partly because its iambic pentameter mimics the steady beat of our own hearts: ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump.Put your ear next to someone’s heart and listen toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 13th May”

“The word cunning is closely associated with the fox. Cunning, like foxes and women, has been given a bad rap. Many have twisted the word’s sacred origins into something manipulative and conniving. But the word cunning arrives from an older Middle English word “ken,” a range of knowledge or sight. A cunning person understands thatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 12th May”

“God is not so much a beingas the word we use when confrontedwith the totality of all being,the unimaginable ultimacy of the universe,and the mystery of loveat work in the human heart.” Cliff Reed, retired Unitarian minister, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection

“The felling of trees and the destruction of wild green places is always a sorrow. When green life is cleared for housing or landfill sites, we feel strong resentment. Human beings have been clearing the earth for agriculture and habitation from early times. Desertification began to replace habitation long ago. It is easy to waxContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 10th May”