Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“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”

“When the life-force of the universe and the vigour that runs through our bodies are aligned with our spiritual core, then we experience our true power and live with it. The difference between living with power and simply behaving powerfully lies in one thing: those who inhabit their power by aligning with the universe freelyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 10th March”

“Self-knowledge is so important that I do not care how high you are raised up to the heavens, I never want you to cease cultivating it. As long as we are on this earth, there is nothing more essential than humility. Enter the room of self-knowledge first, instead of floating off to the other places.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 9th March”

“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” Audre Lorde

“The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.” Mechthild of Magdeburg

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” Louisa May Alcott, writer and Unitarian, who died on thisContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 6th March”

“I weave a silence onto my lips.I weave a silence into my mind.I weave a silence within my heart…Calm me, O Lord, as you stilled the storm.Still me, O Lord, keep me from harm.Let all tumult within me cease.Enfold me, Lord, in your peace.” David Adam

A Light exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson “A Light exists in SpringNot present on the YearAt any other period —When March is scarcely here A Colour stands abroadOn Solitary FieldsThat Science cannot overtakeBut Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn,It shows the furthest TreeUpon the furthest Slope you knowIt almost speaks to you.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 4th March”

“Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, andContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 3rd March”

“I tell you one thing –If you want peace of mind,do not find fault with others.Rather learn to see your own faults.Learn to make the whole world your own.No one is a stranger, my child;this whole world is your own.” Sri Sarada Devi (1853 – 1920)