Author Archives: Laura Dobson

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF HAPPINESS “For real happiness, a warm heart is more important than a brilliant mind. Remember that your best, most reliable friend is your own intelligence and your own warmheartedness. Let this be your guide to a happy life.” His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Love Song to the Great Mother by Mirabai Starr “Beloved One,Our sister, Mother Earth,Sacred Woman, Holy Girl,Crucible of Mercy and Fire of Truth,Thank you.We have called and you have come. You descend on the wings of pain,the wings of joy,Bringing solace and vitality.You rise through the roots of the treesSpreading shelter, offering refuge.You enter throughContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 19th March”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.” Albert Einstein

“May you listen to your longing to be free.May the frames of your belonging be generous enough for your dreams.May you arise each day with a voice of blessing whispering in your heart.May you find a harmony between your soul and your life.May the sanctuary of your soul never become haunted.May you know the eternalContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 17th March”

“An ancient Indian scripture says, “I established this universe with one fragment of Myself, and I remain.” Now, if there is only one life in which you are I are partakers, one creative thought by which the worlds were formed and maintained, then, however mighty may be the unexpressed Divine Existence – however true thatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 16th March”

“We can no longer let the people in power decide what is politically possible. We can no longer let the people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not blah, blah, blah. Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people.” Greta Thunberg,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 15th March”

“Tikkun Olam (repair of the world): Insofar as a progressive spirituality is committed to a politics that makes the world safe for itself, such a spirituality realizes itself in action. It strives in large and small ways to provide the fundamental preconditions for human dignity and planetary survival: food, shelter, a fair share of theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 14th March”

“To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.” Joseph Priestley, scientist, liberal political theorist, and Unitarian minister, born onContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 13th March”

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.” TerryContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 12th March”

“Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 11th March”