Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“Don’t trust in your reputation, money, or position, but in the strength that is yours – namely, your judgments about the things that you control and don’t control. For this alone is what makes us free and unfettered, that picks us up by the neck from the depths and lifts us eye to eye withContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 6th November”

“This is the very thing which makes up the virtue of the happy person and a well-flowing life – when the affairs of life are in every way tuned to the harmony between the individual divine spirit and the will of the director of the universe.” Chrysippus, Greek Stoic philosopher (279 – 206 BC)

“This is the workof the Sabbath.All creatures floweringout of themselves, a rose,star pollen galaxy,blue-green eggin a well woven nest,the little earthin its swirl of distances.This the workof the effortless.A prophet does not seeinto the future.A prophet seesdeeplyinto the present moment.” Fred LaMotte

“Drifter, on your feet, get moving!You still have time, go look for the Friend.Make yourself wings, take wing and fly.You still have time, go look for the Friend. Charge your bellows with breathlike the blacksmith taught you.That’s how you turn your iron to gold.You still have time, go look for the Friend… I trapped myContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 3rd November”

All Souls’ Day “As we slowly tread towards winter,let us learn how to befriend darkness.May we find our way in the night and welcome the shapes we see.Let us honour the voices of our ancestors,and the faces of friends lost through death or conflict.May we hear their whispers of wisdom,of laughter and of love.May theirContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 2nd November”

All Saints’ Day “My life is made worthwhile by fighting bravely onfor those ideals I hold most great and holy.Though evil winds may blow, they will not rock the calmin my soul, which remains both quiet and lowly.For heaven waits for those whose spirits have won through,but I am sure that my life was worthContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 1st November”

Samhain / Halloween “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and blessWith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shellsWith a sweet kernel; toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 31st October”

“Wherever we have set our roots, there will we grow. The ability to be flexible and adaptable to different growing conditions determines the nature of our development. Learning to change and adapt with each new circumstance is a human gift that we share with all life. Evolution itself shows us that those species that cannotContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 30th October”

International Day of Care and Support “When a mother lives in the streetand sleeps on the pavementin front of your brownstoneyou need many lawsto keep you safe.They all say the same thing,“Stay away.”But when you invite her inside,you recognize, indeed,she is your mother,the one who brings this breath.She sits down by the hearthwhere your griefContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 29th October”

“To separate between physical needs and spiritual needs is both counterproductive and futile. The spiritual breathes life into the physical and the physical rises to become spiritual in a perpetual chemistry of exchange. Heal the soul and the body is renewed. Heal the body and the soul is empowered.” Rabbi Tzvi Freeman William Blake