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St Valentine’s Day “A life without love is a waste. ‘Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?’, don’t ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn’t need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the centre, or you are out, yearning.”Continue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 14th February”

“You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,and I smile, and am silent,and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom.The water flows.” Li Po (701 – 762)

“Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests… temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.” Charles DarwinContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 12th February”

“As I walked out of the door towards the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013), released from prison on this day in 1990 after 27 years in gaol

“The space within us reaches out, translates each thing.For the essence of a tree to be real for you,cast inner space around it, out of the spacethat exists in you. Encircle it with restraint.It has no borders. Only in the realmof your renouncing can it, as tree, be known.” Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)

“Nature and Grace are in harmony with each other. For Grace is God and Nature is God. Neither Nature nor Grace works without the other. They may never be separated… That Goodness that is Nature is God. God is the Ground, the substance, the same that is Naturehood. God is the true Father and MotherContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 9th February”

“The body is God,the body is the temple,the body is the worshipper,the body is the sacred shrine.The body is the incense,the lamp, the sacred offerings;it is the body I worshipwith broken petals. After searchingall the world,it was in the bodyI found all the treasureof the world.Nothing is born,nothing dies –such is Ram’s light. What isContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 8th February”

“If you have ever tried to give strong-tasting medicine to an animal of child, you have encountered (probably with some frustration) the full extent of unwillingness. The same frustration sometimes arises when we try to persuade someone to our way of seeing something; no matter how many times we explain our perspective, the listener’s understandingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 7th February”

“For many, the winter is a difficult time, a time of depression and lethargy. Listen closely to your heart and your body in this time, and make use of the comforts of the season if you’re ailing. Fireside, the company of friends, song – these make great graphics for holiday cards. But if we’re succumbingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 6th February”

“When you act on behalfof something greater than yourself,you beginto feel it acting through youwith a power that is greater than your own.This is grace.Today, as we take risksfor the sake of something greaterthan our separate, individual lives,we are feeling gracedby other beings and by Earth itself.Those with whom and on whose behalf we actgiveContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 5th February”