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“For though my faith is not yoursand your faith is not mineif we are each free to light our own flametogether we can banishsome of the darkness of the world.” Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. AndContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 1st December”

“Spiritual space, silence, the emptiness from which things can be born – these spaces worry us. We are fretful to fill them. As Christmas approaches, we can be pulled into cycles of gift-buying, into hectic socializing, and so abandon the empty spaces that our soul needs so badly… Creating spiritual space is an art. ConsiderContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 30th November”

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People “A true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands,”my father would say. And he’d prove it,cupping the buzzer instantlywhile the host with the swatter stared.In the spring our palms peeled like snakes.True Arabs believed watermelon could heal fifty ways.I changed these to fit theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 29th November”

“Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. I feel that a man may be happy in this world. And I know that this world is a world of imagination and vision. I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 28th November”

“for years we have been told that home is where the heart is~ but I don’t think that’s truehome is where our lungs are my love,whenever I get lost in the wilds of the worldand I can’t find my wayI inhaleso slowly~ so deeplyand suddenly I’m right back at homebecause I was born out ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 27th November”

“O Holy One, we thank you for human love,where, in true caring for another,the divine shines through the human;we thank you for love’s powerto transfigure and to heal,for life’s enrichmentin work well done for love’s sake,for beauty, wherein we may see and feelyour radiancewithin and around us.Give us to seek and to findeverywhere and inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 26th November”

“The Fianna was the prestigious war band of the hero Fionn mac Cumhail, whose honour was bound up in their maintenance of truth, as their motto says; “Truth in our hearts, strength in our hands, consistency upon our tongues.” If we divert truth in pursuit of our ambitions, however marginal the lie, we also divertContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 25th November”

“Whenever you experience the pangs of losing something, don’t treat it like a part of yourself, but as a breakable glass, so when it falls you will remember that and won’t be troubled. So too, whenever you kiss your child, sibling, or friend, don’t layer on top of the experience all the things you mightContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 24th November”

“There is no end to the war and death caused by man or to the tears shed by all the innocent victims of such tragedies. What were all these for? Only for conquering, establishing superiority and satisfying our greed for money and fame. Mankind has taken upon itself countless curses. In order to attain freedomContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 23rd November”