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“Freedom is never a reaction. To be stuck in reaction is bondage, bondage to the one against whom we re-act. Freedom is observing our reactions. In that seeing, reaction dissolves. Then we can act from stillness, the silence of the Seer. Stillness is a lightning bolt. Silence is a diamond with ten thousand eyes. WhyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 28th June”

“A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,And never a laugh but the moans come double;And that is life! A crust and a corner that love makes precious,With a smile to warm and the tears toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 27th June”

Anniversary of the signing of the Charter of the United Nations in 1945 “Let us teach that the honour of a nation consists not in the forced submission of other states, but in equal laws and free institutions, in cultivated fields and prosperous cities; in the development of intellectual and moral power, in the diffusionContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 26th June”

Healing Begins at Home by Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, “There’s a story about a man who was lowered down a deep shaft, lower and lower, until the darkness was so dark he could touch it with his fingers, the damp cold so damp and cold it seeped through his bones and made them shiver.Finally, without warning,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 25th June”

Midsummer Song by Caitlin Matthews, “Dark is the night, far is the dawning,Sing for the shining of light on the way.Hearken, be ready, attend to my calling:Sing all you guardians who wait at the door. Sing, sing, sing for the dawning,Sing for the midnight, the noon and the daySing, sing, sing for the morningSing forContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 24th June”

“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” Alan Turing, born on this day in 1912

Summer Solstice by Tom Hirons, “In a graveyard in June,The sun arcs high overAll the withered trees.Light pours onto the tombstones.Despite the terrible news,The skylarks and the blackbirds sing,Relentless as the turn of time.I lift my face to the bright horizon.I have heard the death-groans ofA thousand of my dreams,But the life-song of the unknownStillContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 22nd June”

From Celtic Devotional by Caitlin Matthews, “Glory to the Day-Star, hail!Lifter of the Light, Burnisher of the Sky.Gifts of love to earth are bringing,Summer’s shimmer, dew’s delight.Dancing be the heart within us,Open be our souls to bliss,Courage vanquish every shadow,Greet midsummer with a kiss.”

“Dear you,if you don’t like the way that you look it’s probably because you have chosen the wrong mirror to look at yourself instop using other people as a mirror to see your reflection in – especially if that other person is an assholeassholes make the worst mirrorsthey only want to reflect your blemishesand yourContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 20th June”

“My soul suddenly became recollected, and it seemed to me to be like a brightly polished mirror, without any part that was not totally clear. In its centre, Christ our Lord was shown to me. It seemed to me I saw him clearly in every part of my soul, as though in a mirror. AndContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 19th June”