Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightning and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees – all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.” Thomas Berry

Winter Solstice “Great Lady and Lord of the turning wheel of the year’s seasons, by whom the light returns, I call to you. Now, at the darkest time, when all of nature is still and cold, the change is made. There is a pause, as though between breaths, all nature waits, and then – theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 21st December”

International Human Solidarity Day “All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. All generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 20th December”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens published on thisContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 19th December”

International Migrants Day “People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other.” Mary Pipher

“How mistaken are those people who seek happiness outside of themselves, in foreign lands and journeys, in riches and glory, in great possessions and pleasures, in diversions and vain things, which have a bitter end! It is the same thing to construct the tower of happiness outside of ourselves as it is to build aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 17th December”

“”All things love each other. All nature is oriented toward a thou. All beings that are love are in communion with each other.. All beings love each other or feed each other, and are all united in a gigantic process of birth and growth and reproduction and death… All nature is in close touch andContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 16th December”

“Everything around us is a drop of God’s love: animate and inanimate, plants and beasts, birds and mountains, sea and sunset, and the sky strewn with stars. They are small loves through which we come to Great Love.” St. Porphyrios of Kasokalyvia (1906 – 1991)

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream..” Shirley Jackson (1916 – 1965), horror writer, born on this day

Feast Day of St Lucy ” Knock, and He’ll open the door.Vanish, and He’ll make you shine likethe sun.Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens.Become nothing and He’ll turn youinto everything.” Rumi