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International Day for Tolerance “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” Dalai Lama

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do… Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986), artist, born on thisContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 15th November”

“Contemplation is essentially a listening in silence, an expectancy. And yet in a certain sense, we must truly begin to hear God when we have ceased to listen. What is the explanation of this paradox? Perhaps only that there is a higher kind of listening, which is not an attentiveness to some special wave length,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 14th November”

“Sometimes the way to milk and honey is through the body.Sometimes the way in is a song.But there are three ways in the world: dangerous, wounding,and beauty.To enter stone, be water.To rise through hard earth, be plantdesiring sunlight, believing in water.To enter fire, be dry.To enter life, be food.” Linda Hogan, Chickasaw Nation Writer inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 13th November”

First Day of Diwali Festival 🔥🕉️ “Diwali is a time to turn inward and light the lamps of knowledge and truth in our hearts and minds so that we can dispel the forces of darkness and ignorance within us and allow our innate brilliance and goodness to shine forth. Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 12th November”

Armistice Day “A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881), Russian writer and journalist,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 11th November”

“What I eat is divineWhat I drink is divineMy bed is also divineThe divine is here, and it is thereThere is nothing empty of divineJani says — Vithabai [Vishnu] has filledeverything from the inside out.” Sant Janābāi, 14th century Hindu poet

“Everything has its season.All is change and decay:In each blossomis contained the russet brownsforetelling the year’s end… Take each day, each hour, each second,the only certainty changeand within each dying minuteour reverent acceptance ofthe harbingers of renewal.” Richard Bober, Unitarian Meditation Fellowship, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection

“When psalms surprise me with their musicAnd antiphons turn to rumThe Spirit sings: the bottom drops out of my soulAnd from the center of my cellar Love, louder than thunderOpens a heave of naked air… The wholeWorld is secretly on fire. The stonesBurn, even the stonesThey burn me. How can a man be still orListenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 8th November”

“The Four Conditions of Happiness:Life in the open air,Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation.” Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, dramatist, journalist and political activist (1913 – 1960), born on this day