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“Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen. Especially to people we think are our enemies – the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When we have shown our capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 19th December”

International Migrants Day “I know that those who hate have good reason to do so. But why should we always have to choose the cheapest and easiest way? It has been brought home forcibly to me here how every atom of hatred added to the world make it an even more inhospitable place. And IContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 18th December”

“The Judaeo-Christian vision of the cosmos defends the unique and central value of the human being amid the marvellous concert of all God’s creatures, but today we see ourselves forced to realize that it is only possible to sustain a “situated anthropocentrism”. To recognize, in other words, that human life is incomprehensible and unsustainable withoutContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 17th December”

“There is a reason why walking amongst nature is most people’s best advice when depression strikes.Because walking in nature is a return to ‘home’.You are not a lover of nature, or a fan of nature, you ‘are’ nature.You are as much nature as the trees in your garden and the bees on your picnic.You wereContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 16th December”

“Finding your Self, discovering who you really are, means to find God, for there is nothing really outside of Him.. God is fully and equally present everywhere.. Everything is He.” Ma Anandamayi (1896 – 1982), Indian spiritual teacher

“The world you see is just a movie in your mind.Rocks don’t see it.Bless and sit down.Forgive and forget.Practice kindness all day to everybodyand you will realize you’re already in heaven now.That’s the story.That’s the message.” Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969), novelist and poet, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection

“If we could set up a stop-frame film of the solar year and point it up toward the northern heavens, we would see revealed the dance of the circumpolar stars about the polestar in a fantastic circle dance. Among the peoples of the north, the polestar is called “the nail of heaven” because of itsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 13th December”

International Day of Neutrality “You see, when the world becomes too solid for nuance, when it hardens up and crystallizes into a binary that forces you to pick a side, compelling you to become intelligible to the hardness that creeps on its once loamy surfaces, cracks become the first responders. We need a politics ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 12th December”

“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good… Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor betweenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 11th December”

“Prayer is as natural to man as speaking, sighing and seeing, as natural as the palpitation of a loving heart; and actually that is what prayer is: a murmur, a sigh, a glance, a heartbeat of love… All our bodily acts are the nature of prayer. Our body performs a perfect physiological act of thanksgivingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 10th December”