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“The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.” Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852), mathematician, born on this day

“The mind is its own place, and in itselfCan make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven… “Yet he who reigns within himself, and rulesPassions, desires, and fears, is more a king.” John Milton (1608 – 1674), poet, born on this day

“I put my trust in you, O God, as best as I am able.May I be strong. May I not be afraidMay all who open their heartshear your voice and know your love.Lead me, teach me, help me to trust. You are gracious to us, O GodYou guide us, you forgive our clumsy waysYou helpContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 8th December”

“Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state – it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle. Entertainment is a diversion, a distraction of the mind from the preoccupations of daily living. Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 7th December”

“God is in the look of your eyes,In the thought of looking,nearer to you than your self,or things that have happened to you.There’s no need to go outside.Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.A white flower grows in the quietness.Let your tongue become that flower.” Rumi

World Soil Day Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant… at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” Margaret Atwood

“Only by dying to ourselves do we encounter our true identity, because our true identity is not in our ego but in the All. We are centred in God as are all other things and beings..Our ego is a solitary place, and he who rejects suffering and defies death and refuses to give himself, butContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 4th December”

“We think that the past is gone and the future is not yet here. But if we look deeply, we see that reality is more than that. The past exists in the guise of the present because the present is made from the past. If we establish ourselves firmly in the present, touching the presentContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 3rd December”

“I’m discovering that a spiritual journey is a lot like a poem. You don’t merely recite a poem or analyze it intellectually. You dance it, sing it, cry it, feel it on your skin and in your bones. You move with it and feel its caress. It falls on you like a teardrop or wrapsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 2nd December”

“Compassion, then, before anything else, is the work of feeling with the other. And it is work – ask any therapist – emotional work, psychic work, spiritual work; we might call it heart work, womb work, gut work. It is work which demands the focusing of attention on the other and thus requires a radicalContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 1st December”