Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“It’s being here now that’s important… Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one… the only thing we ever experience is the now…Continue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 25th February”

“The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything.” Julian of Norwich (c.1343 – c.1416), quoted in Christian Mystics by Matthew Fox

“The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, butContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 23rd February”

“Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways – it’s infinite. It’s like God… you know?” Nina Simone (1933 – 2003), born onContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 22nd February”

“The cauldron of Annwfn, the Welsh Underworld, was guarded, warmed, and inspired by the nine sisters of the cauldron – the primal inspirers of the Celtic world. The ninefold sisters were understood to take the threefold thread of each life and amplify it till its full potential was realized. They were seen as the GiftingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 21st February”

WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE “I’ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage–self destructive, destroy the world rage–and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 20th February”

“Endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God… To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 19th February”

“Our soul must perform two duties.The one is we must reverently wonder and be surprised;the other is we must gently let goand let be always taking pleasure in God.” Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – c. 1416), quoted in Christian Mystics by Matthew Fox

“It is quite impossible to unite happiness with a yearning for what we don’t have. Happiness has all that it wants, and resembling the well-fed, there shouldn’t be hunger or thirst.” From the Discourses of Epictetus 3.24.17, Greek Stoic Philosopher (c. 50 – c. 135)

“As the stores close, a winter lightopens air to iris blue,glint of frost through the smokegrains of mica, salt of the sidewalk.As the buildings close, released autonomousfeet pattern the streetsin hurry and stroll; balloon headsdrift and dive above them; the bodiesaren’t really there.As the lights brighten, as the sky darkens,a woman with crooked heels saysContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 16th February”