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“Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.”Mary Wollstonecraft (1759Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 10th September”

From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), born on this day, “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 9th September”

Psalm 66 Redux by Carla Grosch-Miller,“The whole earth sings praise!Wild wind whips glory,babbling brook skipping sings,green fields davening sway.The smallest ears pick up the tunethat pulses through all things.Oh God, Maker of all,let my life move withthe earth songs beneath my feetand the star songs above my head.Let my heart jig and caper like aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 8th September”

“There comes a time when nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love.” Rumi

“Because yesterday was not all it should have been does not matter.Yesterday is finished and gone and you can do nothing about it.Today is a completely different matter.It lies before you untouched and unblemished.And it is up to you to make it the most wonderful day. How do you start off each day?Remember, it isContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 6th September”

From Eternal Echoes by John O’Donohue, “There are no manuals for the construction of the individual you would like to become.You are the only one who can decide this and take up the lifetime of work that it demands.This is a wonderful privilege and such an exciting adventure.To grow into the person that your deepestContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 5th September”

“I once asked God what I could give him. “Your problems,” he said. “I’ve got everything else.”” Rabbi Lionel Blue

“In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true form of SomethingIn whose presence you are blotted out?And in whose being you still exist?And who lives as a sign for your journey?”Rabia al-BasriContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 3rd September”

The Moment by Margaret Atwood, “The moment when, after many yearsof hard work and a long voyageyou stand in the centre of your room,house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,knowing at last how you got there,and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloosetheir soft arms from around you,the birds take backContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 2nd September”

From The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben, “When you know that trees experience pain and have memories and that tree parents live together with their children, then you can no longer just chop them down and disrupt their lives with largerContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 1st September”