Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“Oh, Great Spirit,Whose voice I hear in the windsAnd whose breath gives life to all the world.Hear me! I need your strength and wisdom.Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyesEver hold the red and purple sunset.Make my hands respect the things you have madeAnd my ears sharp to hear your voice.Make me wiseContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 14th August”

“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. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away.. but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 13th August”

“Any step we take in mindfulness that brings us a little more solidity, freedom, and joy also benefits society and our ancestors. Don’t think that what you do to yourself doesn’t affect the rest of society and the world. Peace and freedom always begin with our own practice. If transformation takes place in us, itContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 12th August”

“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 11th August”

Traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur’an, in 610 “God calls.The bells ring in the temple;The perfume rises from the aloes;The sage in meditation sits.Om! Tat! Sat!The nothingness of the now;The Everythingness of Eternity.God calls. God calls.The muezzin’s voice from minaret tower cries:“Come to prayer, come to prayer, comeContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 10th August”

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples “Remember the sky that you were born under,know each of the star’s stories.Remember the moon, know who she is.Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is thestrongest point of time. Remember sundownand the giving away tonight.Remember your birth, how your mother struggledto give you form and breath. YouContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 9th August”

“Mother Earth is serving us; the sun, the moon and the stars all serve us. What can we do in return for their selfless service?” Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, known as Amma

“With tired feet I scrunch the pebbles at the shoreline, walking hard, pushing my body at the wind as if I could break through the choices and enter the place of peace. A long tree trunk, white with ocean washing, soft with the long slow tempering of time, beckons my body and I sit, thenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 7th August”

““Miracles have ceased.” Have they indeed? When? They had not ceased this afternoon when I walked into the wood and got into bright, miraculous sunshine, in shelter from the roaring wind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), writer and Unitarian minister, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection

“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hourContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 5th August”