Author Archives: veerjih

“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”

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HUMAN FRATERNITY “I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom… We must have courage — determination — to go on with the task of becoming free — not onlyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 4th February”

“At some stage we must let go of the past and begin again. No one is undeserving of forgiveness – and that includes you. I know it can be difficult to offer ourselves the forgiveness that we can so freely give to others. Perhaps we hold ourselves to a higher standard than the standard toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 3rd February”

“Hush. I am so close, I may look distant.So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.So out in the open, I appear hidden.So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.” Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207 – 1273)

“It is absolutely imperative that every human being’s freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world.” Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland on 1st February 2009, becoming the first openly gay Head of Government in the modern world.