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“Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades – except how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes. What is the use of a house if you haven’t got aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 25th October”

“Do you not know? Have you not heard?The Lord is God from old, Creator of the earth from end to end,He never grows faint or weary,His wisdom cannot be fathomed.He gives strength to the weary, fresh vigour to the spent.Youths may grow faint and weary, and young men stumble and fall;But they who trust inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 24th October”

“A lot of people try to counteract the ‘I am not good enough’ with ‘I am good enough.’ In other words, they take the opposite and they try to invest it. That still keeps the world at the level of polarities. The art is to go behind the polarities. So the act is to goContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 23rd October”

From Earth Bound: Daily Meditations for All Seasons by Brian Nelson,“On this day in 1734, Daniel Boone was born. John Mack Faragher’s biography of the woodsman describes how, in the early years of his marriage, Boone would disappear into the forest for long hunts, sometimes lasting a year or so. After one of these hunts,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 22nd October”

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and one-time Unitarian minister, born on this day in 1772

“It is better to guide one soul than to possess all that is on earth, for as long as that guided soul is under the shadow of the Tree of Divine Unity, he and the one who hath guided him will both be recipients of God’s tender mercy, whereas possession of earthly things will ceaseContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 20th October”

“We build on foundations we did not lay.We warm ourselves at fires we did not light.We sit in the shade of trees we did not plant.We drink from wells we did not dig.We profit from persons we did not know.We are ever bound in community.”Deuteronomy 6:10-12, adapted by Peter Raible

“In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”African-American poet Phillis Wheatley (c.1753 – 1784), who was freed from slavery on this day in 1775

“I sometimes forgetthat I was created for Joy.My mind is too busy.My Heart is too heavyfor me to rememberthat I have beencalled to dancethe Sacred dance of life.I was created to smileTo LoveTo be lifted upAnd to lift others up.O’ Sacred OneUntangle my feetfrom all that ensnares.Free my soul.That we mightDanceand that our dancingmight beContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 17th October”

“Be yourself; everyone else is taken.”Oscar Wilde, born on this day in 1854