Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“God is not a watchmaker who then periodically tinkers with the creation he long ago established. Instead, God is one with all that exists. The great miracle is the energizing force of the universe itself. One mind is everywhere active, in each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool.” Ralph Waldo EmersonContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 18th August”

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West, born on this day in 1893

“Though human nature has many detractors, and though we fail our own best intentions sometimes, the treasury of the soul reflects its divine origins time and again in our life’s track. True divinity of soul shines out in the most unexpected moments: when we are hard-pressed, when care and support must stretch just a littleContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 16th August”

“To understand the world, knowledge is not enough. You must see it, touch it, live in its presence and drink the vital heat of existence in the very heart of reality.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955), Jesuit priest, paleontologist and theologian

“I quietly gaze into the depths of a forestand see nothing save beauty and peace.Birdsong fills my ears.A gentle breeze brushes against my cheek.Seeing from inside the seeing,I drink the dark riches of the woods. Would it be that every day I could seemy own face so clearly in these still waters,And meet the emptinessContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 14th August”

“Every unique thing in nature is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world. In geometric harmony of the cosmos there are ways that resemble, there are universal patterns, from blood vessels, to winter trees or to aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 13th August”

International Youth Day “Please bring strange things.Please come bringing new things.Let very old things come into your hands.Let what you do not know come into your eyes.Let desert sand harden your feet.Let the arch of your feet be the mountains.Let the path of our fingertips be your mapsand the ways you go be the linesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 12th August”

“Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.” Children’s author Enid Blyton, born on this day in 1897

“Action that is in accordance with duty, performed without attachment and aversion, and done without desire for rewards, is action in the mode of goodness.” Bhagavad Gita (Song of God) 18:23, composed in India in around 200 BCE

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples “In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again. This time you give and next time your receive. Both the honour of giving and the humility of receiving are necessary halves of the equation. The grassContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 9th August”