Author Archives: Laura Dobson

Contemplation on No-Coming and No-Going by Thich Nhat Hanh, “This body is not me.I am not limited by this body,I am life without boundaries.I have never been born,and I have never died. Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars,manifestations from my wondrous true mind.Since before time, I have been free.Birth and deathContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 13th May”

“Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God’s Law out of the smallest… So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates andContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 12th May”

“If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about colour; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.” Bob Marley, who died on thisContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 11th May”

“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.” Theodore Parker, Unitarian minister and abolitionist, who died on this day in 1860

An Unexpected Act of Creative Rebellion by Jackie Stewart, “The collective wound humans are now ready to heal is the old story that we are not good enough.. Feeling that we are not good enough is so deeply ingrained that we spend a vast majority of our time trying to prove that we are. ItContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 9th May”

“And now you ask in your heart,“How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?”Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,But it is also the pleasure of the flower toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 8th May”

“Truth is within ourselves; it takes no riseFrom outward things, whate’er you may believe.There is an inmost centre in us all,Where truth abides in fullness … and, to know,Rather consists in opening out a wayWhence the imprisoned splendour may escape,Than in effecting entry for a lightSupposed to be without.” Robert Browning, born on this dayContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 7th May”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” Henry David Thoreau, who died on this day in 1862

“If a flea could use reason,and if it could use it explorethe eternal abyss of divine beingout of which it originally came,then all of the ideas, ideals and images of “God”it could discover couldn’t make it any happier.Therefore, we pray to be donewith these “God”- images and insteadallow the truth to break us backthrough intoContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 5th May”

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering…The fear of loss is a path to the dark side… Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”YodaHappy Star Wars Day – May the Fourth be with you!