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“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)

“Only by dying to ourselves do we encounter our true identity, because our true identity is not in our ego but in the All. We are centred in God as are all other things and beings… Our ego is a solitary place, and he who rejects suffering and defies death and refuses to give himself,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 20th January”

I Worried by Mary Oliver “I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the riversflow in the right direction, will the earth turnas it was taught, and if not how shallI correct it?Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,can I do better?Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrowscanContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 19th January”

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne, born on this day in 1882

“We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 17th January”