Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“On this day in 1917, a street in Baltimore was the first anywhere to be lit with gas. This was the beginning of a curse for astronomers, who would come to revile city lights for interfering with their telescopes. Yet it had its advantages as well. It made the night a safer place and helpedContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 17th February”

“Where, then, is God? In the conclusion of some argument? The final clause of some syllogism? No, the God you can argue yourself into finding is a God you can argue yourself into losing. The living God is in the life itself. God is in the miseries of the world waiting to be ended, inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 16th February”

“Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.” Susan B. Anthony, suffragette, born on this day in 1820

“There is a candle in your heart,ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul,ready to be filled.You feel it, don’t you ?You feel the separationfrom the Beloved.Invite Him to fill you up,embrace the fire.Remind those who tell you otherwise thatLovecomes to you of its own accord,and the yearning for itcannot be learned inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 14th February”

“All people are children when they sleep.there’s no war in them then.They open their hands and breathein that quiet rhythm heaven has given them.They pucker their lips like small childrenand open their hands halfway,soldiers and statesmen, servants and masters.The stars stand guardand a haze veils the sky,a few hours when no one will do anybodyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 13th February”

“Finding our true song is about relinquishing the burden of ego and the false choruses that it sings. Self-importance causes us to dance to strange tunes that our feet find unnatural. When we act out of self-importance, we trip ourselves up, make Freudian slips, inadvertently revealing to ourselves and others how far we are fromContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 12th February”

“All thingsAre too smallTo hold meI am so vastIn the infiniteI reachFor the uncreatedI have touched itIt undoes meWider than wideEverything elseIs too narrowYou know this wellWho also live there.” Hadewijch of Antwerp (13th century Beguine)

“Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.” Charles Lamb, Unitarian poet and essayist, born on this day in 1775

“In my travels I spent time with a great yogi. Once he said to me, ‘Become so still you hear the blood flowing through your veins.’ One night as I sat in quiet, I seemed on the verge of entering a world inside so vast I know it is the source of all of us.”Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 9th February”