Author Archives: Laura Dobson

International Day for Biological Diversity “The heart that has learned to love feels sorry for every created thing…Once I needlessly killed a fly. The poor thing crawled on the ground, hurt and mangled, and for three whole days I wept over my cruelty to a living creature, and to this day the incident remains inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 22nd May”

International Tea Day “Tea is an act complete in its simplicity. When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea. The rest of the world dissolves. There are no worries about the future. No dwelling on past mistakes. Tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup. I inhale the scent, tinyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 21st May”

World Bee Day “What is this dark hum among the roses?The bees have gone simple, sipping,that’s all. What did you expect? Sophistication?They’re small creatures and they arefilling their bodies with sweetness, how could they notmoan in happiness? The littleworker bee lives, I have read, about three weeks.Is that long? Long enough, I suppose, to understandthatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 20th May”

“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to riskContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 19th May”

“When we feel that we’re fragile, not stable or solid, we can come back to ourselves and take refuge in the earth. With each step we can feel her solidity beneath our feet. When we’re truly in touch with the earth, we can feel her supportive embrace and her stability. We use our whole bodyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 18th May”

“God neither heeds nor needs vigils, fasting, prayer, and all forms of mortification in contrast to repose. God needs nothing more than for us to offer him a quiet heart. Then he accomplishes in the soul such secrets and divine deeds that no creature can serve them or even add to them… The divine natureContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 17th May”

International Day of Living Together in Peace “Here’s to the bridge-builders, the hand-holders, the light-bringers, those extraordinary souls wrapped in ordinary lives who quietly weave threads of humanity into an inhumane world. They are the unsung heroes in a world at war with itself. They are the whisperers of hope that peace is possible. LookContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 16th May”

“I feel carried away and possessed by an unutterable rapture over the divine spectacle of heavenly harmony.” German astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third of his three planetary laws, the “harmonic law”, on this day in 1618

“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If youContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 14th May”

“Our bodies produce a constant rhythm, which may explain why some small children and animals sleep better next to a ticking clock or metronome. Perhaps Shakespeare’s poetry is so timeless partly because its iambic pentameter mimics the steady beat of our own hearts: ba-thump, ba-thump, ba-thump. Put your ear next to someone’s heart and listenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 13th May”