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“Mother Earth is serving us; the sun, the moon and the stars all serve us. What can we do in return for their selfless service?” Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, known as Amma

“With tired feet I scrunch the pebbles at the shoreline, walking hard, pushing my body at the wind as if I could break through the choices and enter the place of peace. A long tree trunk, white with ocean washing, soft with the long slow tempering of time, beckons my body and I sit, thenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 7th August”

““Miracles have ceased.” Have they indeed? When? They had not ceased this afternoon when I walked into the wood and got into bright, miraculous sunshine, in shelter from the roaring wind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), writer and Unitarian minister, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection

“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hourContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 5th August”

“Most of us are sufficiently distanced from our own ancestral wisdom to feel disoriented in a time when indigenous knowledge is being reevaluated. How do we rekindle the ancestral fires once again? Where is the wisdom that will help us through the night of ignorance and doubt? Instead of elders, we now have elected politiciansContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 4th August”

“By morning she has losta husband, a home, a dream,a night of her lifethat will never return.She tries not to thinkof what she will do,of what this meansin the long history of loss.There are tigers dying,she knows, nuclear threatsthat might eradicatethe world.Forests are disappearingand seas are being emptied.She tries not to thinkof her hungeragainst theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 3rd August”

“In every breathif you’re the centreof your own desiresyou’ll lose the graceof your beloved But if in every breathyou blow awayyour self claimthe ecstasy of lovewill soon arrive In every breathif you’re the centreof your own thoughtsthe sadness of autumnwill fall on you but if in every breathyou strip nakedjust like a winterthe joy ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 2nd August”

“Sometimes if we don’t do anything, we help more than if we do a lot. We call that non-action. It’s like the calm person on a small boat in a storm. That person doesn’t have to do much, just be themselves, and the situation can change.” From Peace Is This Moment by Thich Nhat Hanh

Lughnasadh / Lammas Eve “A bird’s song calms your nervous system. Breathing in soil helps you to feel safe and release serotonin within. Medicines and wild foods grow at our feet. The air holds anti-inflammatory bacteria. Our oxygen is a continuous reciprocal relationship with the rooted ones and the rivers and seas.. Death is alchemisedContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 31st July”

International Day of Friendship “A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen.” From Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne