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“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”

Tradition ascribes this day in the year 610 CE as the date on which the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) began to receive the revelation later transcribed as the Qur’an, which begins,“In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of all the worlds,The Most Compassionate, theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 10th August”

“The sanest man sets up no deed, lays down no law,Takes everything that happens as it comes,As something to animate, not to appropriate,To earn, not to own,To accept naturally without self-importance:If you never assume importance,You never lose it.”Lao Tzu (BCE 604 – 531), Chinese philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching, quoted in FragmentsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 9th August”

“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 8th August”

“A sharp mind will find a truth for itself.A humble spirit will find a truth higher than itself.Truth is not the property of intellectuals, but of those who know how to escape their own selves.”Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

Today is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. ‘Hiroshima Child’ by Nazim Hikmet“I come and stand at every doorBut none can hear my silent treadI knock and yet remain unseenFor I am dead for I am deadI’m only seven though I diedIn Hiroshima long agoI’m seven now as I was thenWhenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 6th August”

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at…Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing it.”Jesse Owens, winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic games,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 5th August”