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“The wise person begins each day as a small child. Every cell of his being is dedicated to learning wisdom, and so from every person he finds some wisdom to learn. Each day, he rises to great heights of wisdom. And yet, the next morning, he begins all over again, as a small child, inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 31st July”

From the Bhagavad Gita, “He is the source of light in all luminous objects.He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested.He is knowledge, He is the object of knowledge, and He is the goal of knowledge.He is situated in everyone’s heart.”

From The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, published on this day in 1954,“The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oftContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 29th July”

On this day in 1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduced potatoes to Europe on his return to England from America.Prayer and Potatoes by Tim Sandles,“An old lady sat in her old arm-chairWith wrinkled visage and dishevelled hairAnd hunger-worn features;For a few days and for weeks her only fare,As she sat there in her old arm-chair,Had beenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 28th July”

“The mixture of sorrow and joy is so powerful that we cannot figure out how to handle it all, let alone assess how our fellow spiritual seekers are doing. The diversity of feelings can be overwhelming… In those moments when we sense the presence of God we surrender to him, truly willing to be withContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 27th July”

“It happens to those who live alonethat they feel sure of visitorswhen no one else is there,until the one dayand the one particular hourworking in the quiet garden,when they realize at oncethat all alongthey have been an invitationto everythingand every kind of troubleand that life happens byto those who inhabit silencelike the bees visiting theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 26th July”

“A rabbi asked his students, “How do you know that night has ended and the day is returning?” One student answered, “Is it when you see an animal in the distance and can tell whether it is a sheep or a dog?” “No,” the rabbi replied. Another student asked, “Is it when you look atContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 25th July”

“The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifestingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 24th July”

“Ironic, but one of the most intimate actsof our body isdeath.So beautiful appeared my death – knowing who then I would kiss,I died a thousand times before I died.“Die before you die,” said the ProphetMuhammad.Have wings that feared evertouched the Sun?I was born when all I oncefeared – I couldlove.”Rabia al-Basri (c.717 – 801), SufiContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 23rd July”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;where knowledge is free;where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;where words come out from the depth of truth;where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;where the clear stream of reason has not lost its wayinto the drearyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 22nd July”