Author Archives: Laura Dobson

““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”

“Most of us are sufficiently distanced from our own ancestral wisdom to feel disoriented in a time when indigenous knowledge is being reevaluated. How do we rekindle the ancestral fires once again? Where is the wisdom that will help us through the night of ignorance and doubt? Instead of elders, we now have elected politiciansContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 4th August”

“By morning she has losta husband, a home, a dream,a night of her lifethat will never return.She tries not to thinkof what she will do,of what this meansin the long history of loss.There are tigers dying,she knows, nuclear threatsthat might eradicatethe world.Forests are disappearingand seas are being emptied.She tries not to thinkof her hungeragainst theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 3rd August”

“In every breathif you’re the centreof your own desiresyou’ll lose the graceof your beloved But if in every breathyou blow awayyour self claimthe ecstasy of lovewill soon arrive In every breathif you’re the centreof your own thoughtsthe sadness of autumnwill fall on you but if in every breathyou strip nakedjust like a winterthe joy ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 2nd August”

“Sometimes if we don’t do anything, we help more than if we do a lot. We call that non-action. It’s like the calm person on a small boat in a storm. That person doesn’t have to do much, just be themselves, and the situation can change.” From Peace Is This Moment by Thich Nhat Hanh

Lughnasadh / Lammas Eve “A bird’s song calms your nervous system. Breathing in soil helps you to feel safe and release serotonin within. Medicines and wild foods grow at our feet. The air holds anti-inflammatory bacteria. Our oxygen is a continuous reciprocal relationship with the rooted ones and the rivers and seas.. Death is alchemisedContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 31st July”

International Day of Friendship “A friend is someone who helps you up when you’re down, and if they can’t, they lay down beside you and listen.” From Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

“To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounterContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 29th July”

“What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.” Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943), writer, artist and Unitarian, born on this day