Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“Only the transitory lends itself to description; but what we feel, surmise but will never reach (or know here as an actual happening), the intransitory behind all appearance, is indescribable. That which draws us by its mystic force, what every created thing, perhaps even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the centre ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 7th July”

“Sometimes we feel that we aren’t in our true home because the person we love isn’t there. We think that if we can be together with our beloved, we’ll feel more at home. But if we have not found our true home, then even when we’re with the person we love, we won’t feel atContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 6th July”

“You are a part of me I do not yet know: What do these words mean to you? I practice saying these words in my mind when I see faces on the street, on the screen, across the table. I practice with people I fear or want to hate. I practice with parts of theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 5th July”

“”Three indispensables of a nobleman are: his harp, his blanket and his cauldron.” – triad from Laws of Hywel Dda Under most modern laws of distraint – whereby goods are removed from a household in compensation for debts unpaid – there are certain articles that cannot be removed. These usually include the items by whichContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 4th July”

“If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother’s lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.” Deepak Chopra

“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 2nd July”

“”Whatever anyone does or says, for my part I’m bound to the good. In the same way an emerald or gold or purple might always proclaim: ‘whatever anyone does or says, I must be what I am and show my true colours.’” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.15 The Stoics believed that every person, animal, and thingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 1st July”

“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.” James Baldwin (1924 – 1987)

“Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. When we find new eyes, the unsuspected blessing in work we have done for many years may take us completely by surprise. We can see lifeContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 29th June”

“One who expects to change the world will be disappointed;one must change one’s view.When this is done,then tolerance will come,forgiveness will come,and there will be nothing one cannot bear.” Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi master (1882 – 1927)