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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scrambleContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 10th November”

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every heroContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 9th November”

“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.” From Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1900 – 1949), born on this day

“In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.” From The Rebel (1951) byContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 7th November”

“This morningthe beautiful white heronwas floating along above the waterand then into the sky of thisthe one worldwe all belong towhere everythingsooner or lateris a part of everything elsewhich thought made me feelfor a little whilequite beautiful myself.” Poem of the One World by Mary Oliver

“To love. To be loved.To never forget your own insignificance.To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.To seek joy in the saddest places.To pursue beauty to its lair.To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.To respect strength, never power.Above all, to watch.To try andContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 5th November”

“Doubt can serve you well, if you train it. It must become a way of knowing, a good critic. Every time doubt wants to spoil something for you, ask why it finds something ugly and demand proofs. Thus tested by you, doubt may become bewildered and embarrassed, even aggressive. But don’t give in, demand reasonsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 4th November”

“I have seen the sun break throughto illuminate a small fieldfor a while, and gone my wayand forgotten it. But that was thepearl of great price, the one field that hadtreasure in it. I realise nowthat I must give all that I haveto possess it. Life is not hurryingon to a receding future, nor hankeringContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 3rd November”

All Souls’ Day “Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold insideContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 2nd November”

Festival of Diwali “Om Jai LakshmiGoddess born from the struggle between good and evilGuide us toward the light.In a world where plenty is possible,Let us end hunger, thirst and homelessness.In your nurturing hands,Let us seek refuge from want, fear and violence.With your grace,Let our world be reborn in your image,Where all needs are met,Where moralityContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 1st November”