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“The song of sacred truth is not a tuneless lay on one unvarying note; rather, it is a call sounding at all times for living beings to respond to its challenge in ways appropriate to the time and circumstances. Sacred truth resides in every living moment that we draw breath. We can only be soundboardsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 6th June”

World Environment Day “We pray to you, Mother Earth, with gratitudeFor your holding and sustaining loveFor the air, water, and soil that feed usFor the mountains and rivers and oceans that calm our spiritsFor loving and supporting all beings and all creation.We pray to you, Mother Earth, with humilityHelp us to remember our place inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 5th June”

“Just by practising gratitude, we can find happiness. We must be grateful to our ancestors, our parents, our teachers, our friends, the earth, the sky, the trees, the grass, the animals, the soil, the stones. Looking at the sunlight or at the forest, we feel gratitude. Looking at our breakfast, we feel gratitude. When weContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 4th June”

“All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice… We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.” Josephine Baker (1906 –Continue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 3rd June”

“We breathe the common wind of the earthno matter where we live, who we love,what language we speak. We drink the common water of the earthno matter the colour of our skin, how long we live,the coverings we drape on our forms. We follow the common paths of the earthno matter our beliefs, how farContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 2nd June”

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” MarilynContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 1st June”

“Why! who makes much of a miracle?As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles,Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,Or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the water,Or stand under trees in the woods,Or talk byContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 31st May”

“In a village there was a beautiful statue of a Mahatma (great sage) with outstretched arms. On a plaque beneath the statue, these words were inscribed, “Come into my arms.”Over the years, the arms broke off. The villagers loved the statue and were very upset. They gathered together to try to decide what to do.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 30th May”

She Told Me the Earth Loves Us by Anne Haven McDonnell “She said it softly, without a needfor conviction or romance.After everything? I asked, ashamed. That’s not the kind of love she meant.She walked through a field of graybeetle-bored pine, snags branching like polished bone. I forget sometimeshow trees look at me with the generosityofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 29th May”

“One of our most important tasks as Unitarians is to convince others that there is nothing to fear in difference; that difference, in fact, is one of the most healthy and invigorating human characteristics, without which life would become meaningless. Here lies the power of the liberal way: not in making the whole world Unitarian,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 28th May”