Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“People are the measures of God’s principles; our morality the instrument of his justice, which stills alike the waves of the sea, the tumult of the people, and the oppressor’s brutal rage. Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of humanity, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of humankind. The ideal mustContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 10th May”

“May, and among the miles of leafing,blossoms storm out of the darkness—windflowers and moccasin flowers. The beesdive into them and I too, to gathertheir spiritual honey. Mute and meek, yet theirsis the deepest certainty that this existence too—this sense of well-being, the flourishingof the physical body—ridesnear the hub of the miracle that everythingis a partContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 9th May”

“We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that.. Surely we all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity andContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 8th May”

“Through compassion human beings imitate God… We find these two things, compassion and justice, in all the works of God.” Thomas Aquinas

“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces itContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 6th May”

Happy Vesak (Buddha Day) “With a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings, suffusing the whole world with unobstructed loving-kindness.” Metta Sutra

Thought for the day, Thursday 4th May “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” Audrey Hepburn, born on this day in 1929

“There’s a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don’t grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don’t grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good littleContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 3rd May”

“For the Celtic peoples, the land was inspirited, able to reflect whatever was done upon it. The concept of the land as inert, unable to respond, was foreign to them. There was also a sense that not every inch of land could be used for human purposes, that some was to be set aside asContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 2nd May”

“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.” Virgil “Celebrate the fullness of Spring. Give yourself the chance not just to survive but to thrive.” Brian Nelson