Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“The Judaeo-Christian vision of the cosmos defends the unique and central value of the human being amid the marvellous concert of all God’s creatures, but today we see ourselves forced to realize that it is only possible to sustain a “situated anthropocentrism”. To recognize, in other words, that human life is incomprehensible and unsustainable withoutContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 17th December”

“There is a reason why walking amongst nature is most people’s best advice when depression strikes.Because walking in nature is a return to ‘home’.You are not a lover of nature, or a fan of nature, you ‘are’ nature.You are as much nature as the trees in your garden and the bees on your picnic.You wereContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 16th December”

“Finding your Self, discovering who you really are, means to find God, for there is nothing really outside of Him.. God is fully and equally present everywhere.. Everything is He.” Ma Anandamayi (1896 – 1982), Indian spiritual teacher

“The world you see is just a movie in your mind.Rocks don’t see it.Bless and sit down.Forgive and forget.Practice kindness all day to everybodyand you will realize you’re already in heaven now.That’s the story.That’s the message.” Jack Kerouac (1922 – 1969), novelist and poet, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection

“If we could set up a stop-frame film of the solar year and point it up toward the northern heavens, we would see revealed the dance of the circumpolar stars about the polestar in a fantastic circle dance. Among the peoples of the north, the polestar is called “the nail of heaven” because of itsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 13th December”

International Day of Neutrality “You see, when the world becomes too solid for nuance, when it hardens up and crystallizes into a binary that forces you to pick a side, compelling you to become intelligible to the hardness that creeps on its once loamy surfaces, cracks become the first responders. We need a politics ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 12th December”

“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good… Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor betweenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 11th December”

“Prayer is as natural to man as speaking, sighing and seeing, as natural as the palpitation of a loving heart; and actually that is what prayer is: a murmur, a sigh, a glance, a heartbeat of love… All our bodily acts are the nature of prayer. Our body performs a perfect physiological act of thanksgivingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 10th December”

“Like treasure hidden in the groundtaste in the fruitgold in the rockoil in the seedthe Absolute hidden away in the heartno one can know the ways of our lord white as jasmine… Breath for fragrance, who needs flowers?With peace, patience, forgiving and self-command,who needs the Ultimate Posture?The whole world becomes oneself,who needs solitude?O lord whiteContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 9th December”

“In my belief, there’s one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don’t think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever… At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look backContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 8th December”