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Colour and Fragrance by Norbert Fabián Čapek, founder of the Unitarian Church in Prague, who was executed on this day in 1942 in Dachau concentration camp,“Colour and fragrance, magical rhythm,sweet changing music will change us with them:life within life, inner light gently glowing,surely you seem to be God’s vision growing.O starry heavens, worlds of allContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 10th October”

“Let us pay attention to our breathing.Let us be relaxed in our bodies and minds.Let us be at peace with our bodies and minds.Let us return to ourselves and become wholly ourselves.Let us be aware of the source of being that is common to us all, and to all living things.Evoking the presence of theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 11th October”

“Past is gone, present is going, and tomorrow is day after tomorrow’s yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this.”R K Narayan (1906 – 2001), born on this day

“Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.”Che Guevara, revolutionary and physician, who died on this day in 1967

Imagine by John Lennon, released on this day in 1971, “Imagine there’s no heavenIt’s easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for today Imagine there’s no countriesIt isn’t hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion, tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou You may say I’mContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 8th October”

“Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 7th October”

“Borders. I have never seen one, but I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.”Thor Heyerdahl (1914 – 2002), ethnographer and adventurer, born on this day

“Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 5th October”

St. Francis and the Wolf by Christine Valters Paintner“The city trembled at the wolfoutside its gates, fangsfierce, howling with hunger,fur thick with blood.Francis approaches softly,palms open. When the wolf lungeshis breath stays slow and steady,looks with eyes of love,smiles and bowsand the beast whimpers,licks the monk’s salty face,tail a brown banner waving,and follows Francisthrough theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 4th October”

“Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the GoodContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 3rd October”