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“Lord and swanAre in essence the same:Just its bodyMakes one swanDifferent from others.From the same clayThe potter conjuresMultiple thingsIn many coloursAnd innumerable forms.Milk ten cowsOf different coloursTheir milkWill be the same.Kabir says:Abandon your religionAnd know that the One,The Lord of all worlds.Fills every vessel.Only its bodyMakes a swan differentFrom other swans:Lord and swanAre the sameContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 25th November”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.”Charles Darwin, whose book, On the Origin of Species, was published on this day in 1859

Feast of St Cecilia, patron saint of music“Don’t let yourself forget that God’s grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So sing! The song of rejoicing softens hard hearts. It makes tears of godly sorrow flow from them. Singing summons the Holy Spirit. Happy praises offered inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 22nd November”

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire (1694 – 1778), born on this day

“Forgiveness is not a matter of exonerating people who have hurt you. They may not deserve exoneration. Forgiveness means cleansing your soul of the bitterness of ‘what might have been,’ ‘what should have been,’ and ‘what didn’t have to happen.’ Someone has defined forgiveness as ‘giving up all hope of having had a better past.’Continue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 20th November”

“A new moon teaches gradualnessand deliberation, and how one gives birthto oneself slowly. Patience with small detailsmakes perfect a large work, like the universe.What nine months of attention does for an embryoforty early mornings alone will dofor your gradually growing wholeness.”Rumi

“And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 18th November”

Autumn Chant by US poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950), “Now the autumn shuddersIn the rose’s root,Far and wide the laddersLean among the fruit. Now the autumn clambersUp the trellised frameAnd the rose remembersThe dust from which it came. Brighter than the blossomOn the rose’s boughSits the wizened orange,Bitter berry now;Continue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 17th November”

From Ellam Ondre (All is One), written in the 19th Century, by an anonymous author, in Tamil, and translated into English by K. Lakshmana Sarma, in 1951, “All including the world seen by you and yourself, the seer of the world, is one only. All that you consider as I, you, he, she and it,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 16th November”

Mysteries, Yes by Mary Oliver (1935 – 2019), “Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelousto be understood.How grass can be nourishing in themouths of the lambs.How rivers and stones are foreverin allegiance with gravitywhile we ourselves dream of rising.How two hands touch and the bonds willnever be broken.How people come, from delight or thescars ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 15th November”