Author Archives: Laura Dobson

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLEAN AIR FOR BLUE SKIES “When fire breaks out in a ten-story building, the person living on the first floor cries out for help. The person living on the tenth floor says that it is not his problem. But it soon will become his problem too. He does not realize that. AmmaContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 7th September”

KRISHNA JANMASHTAMI “I remember how my mother would hold me.I would look up at her sometimes and see her weep.I understand now what was happening.Love so strong a force it broke the cage,and she disappeared from everything for a blessed moment.All actions have evolved from the taste of flight;the hope of freedom moves our cellsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 6th September”

“What actions are most excellent?To gladden the heart of a human being.To feed the hungry.To help the afflicted.To lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful.To remove the wrongs of the injured.That person is most beloved of God who does most good to God’s creatures.” Saying of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

“To flower out in the sunshine and air,a seed falls into the loam,where the dead gatherlike old old friendsto compost their pain into beauty.I am a seed.To sing, I fall into silence.To radiate golden joy, I fall into darkness.To know wisdom, I leave the dry land of thinkingand fall into the ocean of bewilderment.Are youContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 4th September”

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oilCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;And all is smeared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;And wear’s man’s smudge and sharesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 3rd September”

“”One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” William Shakespeare, As You Like It As we walk through the countryside at this time of year, it is easy to feel our symbiotic connection with nature. The rich profusion of colours and the abundant seeding and fruiting of the land in preparation for autumn allContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 2nd September”

“The canvas is my playground, where dreams and reality dance together…My brush dances with the rhythm of life, painting a symphony of emotions on the canvas…In every stroke, I weave the stories of my land, capturing the essence of Brazil…Through art, I aim to awake the dormant colours of the world and ignite the imagination…MayContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 1st September”

“”To return to the root is repose.” These are the principles which underlie the wisdom of the East, which the West has to discover and the East to recover if the world is to find its balance… There is an activity of the mind which is grasping, achieving, dominating, but there is also an activityContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 31st August”

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself… Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 30th August”

“Spirit of beauty, whose revelations come to us in sun and rain, dawn and dusk,In all flowing, circling, shining and living things,And in the quiet at the heart of all motion,Be within us this day as the wonder and welcome of the living soul.Awake our senses and quicken our mindsThat we may partake, and beContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 29th August”