Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“These days schoolchildren all learn about continental drift. One only has to look at a globe for half a minute to understand this theory, to see how South America might fit inside Africa’s curve, how Australia might have nestled next to India. But geophysicists are creating theories even more dramatic. The theory of the supercontinentContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 15th July”

“The Celtic peoples held birds in high esteem, as the mouthpieces of Spirit. Their flight and calls were widely used in divination. The term “language of the birds” is used to mean the secret knowledge that runs beneath the web of words; it implies an almost magical intelligence that does not depend upon the helpContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 14th July”

“Life is a gift which we have not earned and for which we cannot pay. There is no necessity that there be a universe, no inevitability about a world moving towards life and then self-awareness. There might have been … nothing at all. Since we have not earned J. S. Bach – or friends orContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 13th July”

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison… If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 12th July”

“The great way isn’t difficult for those who are unattached to their preferences.Let go of longing and aversion, and everything will be perfectly clear.When you cling to a hairbreadth of distinction, heaven and earth are set apart.If you want to realize the truth, don’t be for or against.The struggle between good and evil is theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 11th July”

“When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept this as a physical fact. But can anyone doubt to-day that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 10th July”

“Grant us to walk in beauty, seeing the uncommon in the common, aware of the great stream of wonder in which we and all things move. Give us to see more deeply into the great things of our heritage, and the simple but sublime truths hidden in every leaf and every rock. May our handsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 9th July”

“I am the breath of the Most High, blanketing the earth like mist, filling the sky with towering clouds.I encompass distant galaxies, and walk in the innermost abyss.Over crest and trough, over sea and land, over every people and nation I hold sway…Before time, at the beginning of beginnings, God created Me. And I shallContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 8th July”

“There is a bird on this body treeThat dances in the ecstasy of life.No one knows where it is,And who could ever knowWhat its music means?It nests where branches cast deep shadow;It comes in the dusk and flies away at dawnAnd never says a word of what it intends. No one can tell me anythingAboutContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 7th July”

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” Frida Kahlo, born on this day in 1907