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“And now you ask in your heart,“How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?”Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,But it is also the pleasure of the flower toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 8th May”

“Truth is within ourselves; it takes no riseFrom outward things, whate’er you may believe.There is an inmost centre in us all,Where truth abides in fullness … and, to know,Rather consists in opening out a wayWhence the imprisoned splendour may escape,Than in effecting entry for a lightSupposed to be without.” Robert Browning, born on this dayContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 7th May”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” Henry David Thoreau, who died on this day in 1862

“If a flea could use reason,and if it could use it explorethe eternal abyss of divine beingout of which it originally came,then all of the ideas, ideals and images of “God”it could discover couldn’t make it any happier.Therefore, we pray to be donewith these “God”- images and insteadallow the truth to break us backthrough intoContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 5th May”

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering…The fear of loss is a path to the dark side… Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”YodaHappy Star Wars Day – May the Fourth be with you!

“Once upon a time, wasn’t singing a part of everyday life as much as talking, physical exercise, and religion? Our distant ancestors, wherever they were in this world, sang while pounding grain, paddling canoes, or walking long journeys. Can we begin to make our lives once more all of a piece? Finding the right songsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 3rd May”

“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” Leonardo da Vinci, died on this day in 1519

“I too have known lonelinessI too have known what it is to feelmisunderstoodrejected and suddenlynot at all beautiful.Oh, Mother Earth,your comfort is great, your arms never withhold.It has saved my life to know this.Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning.Oh motions of tenderness!” Mary Oliver

“There is no God in the sky. God is in the heart that loves the sky’s blueness.” A. Powell Davies, Unitarian minister (1902 – 1957)

A story told by Faraduddin Attar, 12th Century, Persia, about the desert saint Rabia al-Adawiyya, 8th Century Iraq, “Once when Rabia al-Adawiyya was travelling on a pilgrimage to Mecca, she found herself alone in the desert for several days.She heard a voice saying, “Hey, holy woman, do you love the presence of the divine glory?”“IContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 29th April”