Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.” Thomas Paine, born on this day in 1737 Thomas Paine caricature, by his enemies

“You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.” Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, born on this day in 1873

Holocaust Memorial Day “For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 27th January”

“We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in justContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 26th January”

To A Mouse by Robert Burns, born on this day in 1759, “Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!Thou need na start awa sae hasty,Wi’ bickerin brattle!I wad be laith to rin an’ chase theeWi’ murd’ring pattle! I’m truly sorry Man’s dominionHas broken Nature’s social union,An’ justifies that ill opinion,Which makesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 25th January”

UN International Day of Education “It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 24th January”

“Holy Spirit, you are the mighty way in which everything that is in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth, is penetrated with connectedness, is penetrated with relatedness.” Hildegard of Bingen “Interdependence and interrelationship are deep ways of seeing the world that our premodern ancestors celebrated. The modern age thought in terms ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 23rd January”

“There are four questions of value in life.. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” Lord George Gordon Byron, born on this day in 1788

“It is a mystery. How does light become darkness, and how does darkness become light?What is the purpose of this transformation?We see this every day, yet our eyes do not see it, nor do our minds perceive it true.Do you not know that life on earth is school?Every day is class.Every day there is whatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 21st January”

“The Holy Water No one lives outside the walls of this sacred place, existence.The holy water, I need it upon my eyes: it is you, dear, you – each form. What mother would lose her infant? And we are that to God,never lost from His gaze are we. Every cry of the heartis attended byContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 20th January”