Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“Each of us builds our own prison or our own palace. Every conscious thought, every utterance of our lips, every interaction of ours with the world leaves its imprint upon an aura that surrounds each of us and stays with us wherever we go. All life, all blessing, all that is transmitted from Above mustContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 6th January”

“Learning the scriptures is easy;but living them, that’s hard.Far easier to read words on a pagethan to seek the living heart of things.Fumbling through the fog of study,stumbling, I lost my last words.And my vision cleared.Oh the sight that met me then! When my mind was cleansed of impurities,like a mirror of its dust andContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 5th January”

“The ancient bards of Britain maintained “perpetual choirs of song” that kept the land harmoniously connected and whole. As long as there was one voice, the land and its inhabitants remained within the enchantment. We now think of enchantment as a malign magical spell, but the original meaning of “to enchant” was “to infuse withContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 4th January”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” From The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), born onContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 3rd January”

“It is dusk. The birds sweep low to the lake and then diveup. The wind picks a few leaves off the groundand turns them into wheels that rolla little way and then collapse. There’s nothing like branchesplanted against the sky to remind youof the feel of your feet on the earth, the way your handssometimesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 2nd January”

“These are the egg-shaped gourdsfrom the old homesof our people a thousand years agoand they are in my hand.First, I introduce myself, the childof the child of the old ones.I listen to where they wish to live,ask them about the birds they need,the butterflies, insects when they blossom,and sing them songspeople say are forgotten,the wordsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 1st January”

“My last word has to be gratitude, gratitude for being.. It is a harsh world, indescribably cruel. It is a gentle word, unbelievably beautiful. It is a world that can make us bitter, hateful, rapid destroyers of joy. It is a world that can draw forth tenderness from us, as we lean towards one anotherContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 31st December”

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” Alan Watts (1915 – 1973), writer and philosopher

“The path of awakening and loving is a path without end. We cannot measure the worth of a single loving action, or the impact of a single caring gesture. We cannot know the results of a single meditation, or evaluate the learning we will derive by meeting a single difficulty with open-heartedness. When we connectContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 29th December”

“If we cannot lay aside the wound, then let us say it will not always bind us.Let us say the damage will not eternally determine our path.Let us say the line of our life will not always travel along the places we are torn.Let us say that forgiveness can take some practice, can take someContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 28th December”