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Winter Solstice “Our souls are not broken that they should need repair, nor deficient that they should need anything added. Our souls need only to be uncovered and allowed to shine.” Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

“People [sometimes] talk about creation as a remote fact of history, as if it were something that was attended to a long time ago, and finished at the time. But creation was not an act; it is a process; and it is going on today as much as it ever was. And Nature is notContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 21st December”

International Human Solidarity Day “My mom taught us never to look away from people’s pain.The lesson was simple:Don’t look away.Don’t look down.Don’t pretend not to see hurt.Look people in the eye.Even when their pain is overwhelming.And when you are in pain, find the people who can look you in the eye.We need to know weContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 20th December”

“Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen. Especially to people we think are our enemies – the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When we have shown our capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 19th December”

International Migrants Day “I know that those who hate have good reason to do so. But why should we always have to choose the cheapest and easiest way? It has been brought home forcibly to me here how every atom of hatred added to the world make it an even more inhospitable place. And IContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 18th December”

“The Judaeo-Christian vision of the cosmos defends the unique and central value of the human being amid the marvellous concert of all God’s creatures, but today we see ourselves forced to realize that it is only possible to sustain a “situated anthropocentrism”. To recognize, in other words, that human life is incomprehensible and unsustainable withoutContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 17th December”

“There is a reason why walking amongst nature is most people’s best advice when depression strikes.Because walking in nature is a return to ‘home’.You are not a lover of nature, or a fan of nature, you ‘are’ nature.You are as much nature as the trees in your garden and the bees on your picnic.You wereContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 16th December”

“Finding your Self, discovering who you really are, means to find God, for there is nothing really outside of Him.. God is fully and equally present everywhere.. Everything is He.” Ma Anandamayi (1896 – 1982), Indian spiritual teacher

“The world you see is just a movie in your mind.Rocks don’t see it.Bless and sit down.Forgive and forget.Practice kindness all day to everybodyand you will realize you’re already in heaven now.That’s the story.That’s the message.” Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969), novelist and poet, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection

“If we could set up a stop-frame film of the solar year and point it up toward the northern heavens, we would see revealed the dance of the circumpolar stars about the polestar in a fantastic circle dance. Among the peoples of the north, the polestar is called “the nail of heaven” because of itsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 13th December”