Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“I’m discovering that a spiritual journey is a lot like a poem. You don’t merely recite a poem or analyze it intellectually. You dance it, sing it, cry it, feel it on your skin and in your bones.You move with it and feel its caress. It falls on you like a teardrop or wraps aroundContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 2nd December”

“Compassion, then, before anything else, is the work of feeling with the other. And it is work – ask any therapist – emotional work, psychic work, spiritual work; we might call it heart work, womb work, gut work. It is work which demands the focusing of attention on the other and thus requires a radicalContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 1st December”

St Andrew’s Day “Here lies our land: every airtBeneath swift clouds, glad glints of sun,Belonging to none but itself.We are mere transients, who singIts westlin’ winds and fernie braes,Northern lights and siller tides,Small folk playing our part.‘Come all ye’, the country says,You win me, who take me most to heart.” Kathleen Jamie

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People “My sister, our land has a throbbing heart,it doesn’t cease to beat, and it enduresthe unendurable. It keeps the secretsof hills and wombs. This land sproutingwith spikes and palms is also the landthat gives birth to a freedom-fighter.This land, my sister, is a woman.” Fadwa Tuqan, poetContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 29th November”

Thanksgiving Day, USA “Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can hardly manage at another. What we could not fathom doing when we were young, we find great joy in when we are old. Like the seasons through which we move,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 28th November”

“Once every people in the world believed that trees were divine … and that deer, and ravens and foxes, and wolves and bears, and clouds and pools, almost all things under the sun and moon, and the sun and moon, were not less divine … “ William Butler Yeats

“It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.. We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflectContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 26th November”

“Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!What a taskto askof anything, or anyone,yet it is ours,and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.One fall day I heardabove me, and above the sting of the wind, a soundI did not know, and my look shot upward; it wasa flockContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 25th November”

“Be helpful when you are at the bottom of the ladder and be the lowest when you are in authority.Be simple in faith but well trained in manners.Be demanding in your own affairs but unconcerned in those of others.Be guileless in friendship, astute in the face of deceit.Be slow to anger, swift to learn, slowContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 24th November”

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” Rabindranath Tagore