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“Winter had settled over me, The frost sealing my eyes, my mouth;My bones as ice,StilledBeneath frozen water. You cameAnd planted your sun like a seed in me,Warm,Precious,Pearl of light,And my being became the song of snow-melt,A river-burst of birdsongRising. At your touch my body is a gardenOf snowdrops;This tender bloomingThe greening of my soul.” MariaContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 1st February”

“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 31st January”

“It is the action, not the fruit of the action, that is important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there will be fruit, but that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results comeContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 30th January”

“The ultimate objective of spirituality is not to remove the existence of evil or humanity’s negative traits. Instead, we must confront and transform these dark forces, for it is only through the struggle of transformation that we ignite the spark of divinity within us.” The Zohar (Jewish mystical text published in 13th century Spain)

“The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.” Painter Jackson Pollock, born on this day in 1912

Holocaust Memorial Day – survivor Susan Pollack MBE (born Zsuzsanna Blau in 1930), reflects on her experience in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. You may find this testimony distressing. “Once I entered the camp all of my faculties, emotions, fears and hopes diminished. I was dehumanised, and in a different world. I had entered a place thatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 27th January”

“You’re the Creator.You’re the Sustainer.You’re the Destroyer of all.You’re my lover.You’re my partner.You’re my teacher of all.I bow to you. You’re the earth from which all things grow.You’re the water, the eternal flow.You’re the fire that glows on and on.You’re the air I breathe in for this song.I bow to you. You’re the sweetness thatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 26th January”

Happy St Dwynwen’s Day! “You are our breath. You are the flightOf our longing to the depths of heaven.You are the water which flees fromThe wilderness of our anxiety and fear.You are the salt which purifies.You are the piercing wind of our pomposity.You are the traveller who knocks.You are the prince who dwells within us.”WaldoContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 25th January”

“If you were to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life that you can lose is that which you are living at the moment; and furthermore, that you can have no other life except the one that you lose. This means that the longest life and the shortest lifeContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 24th January”

“Slowly, mind, slowly –Everything unfolds slowly.The gardener poursHundreds of jars of water:The fruit arrivesOnly in season.” Kabir (15th century Indian mystic poet)