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“The idea of a document’s being “scriptural,” that is, having authority, is integral to Western thought. We no longer remember that wisdom, knowledge, and teaching were conveyed primarily by oral means, that in early Celtic times it was the word that had authority, not what was written. The druids did not write their teachings down;Continue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 24th April”

“If I am in my soul, when I look at others, I see their souls. I still see the individual differences – men and women, rich and poor, attractive and unattractive, and all that stuff. But when we recognize each other as souls, we are seeing each other as aspects of the One. Love isContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 23rd April”

“The slippery green frogthat went to his deathin the heron’s pink throatwas my small brother, and the heronwith the white plumeslike a crown on his headwho is washing now his great sword-beakin the shining pondis my tall thin brother. My heart dresses in blackand dances.” Mary Oliver

“The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 21st April”

“Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights… We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together… We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the sameContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 20th April”

“In the presence of whales a hush falls over people. Sacred awe, so profound that it becomes the deepest of meditative silence. Even when children are present they intuitively drift into the quietest of quiet. We have entered a temple of soaring grandeur, into a sacred space that transcends all cultures, all language, and allContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 19th April”

“Heaven is my father and earth is my mother, and I, a small child, find myself intimately between them. What fills the universe I regard as my body: what directs the universe I regard as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters: all beings are my companions. Those who are tired, infirm, crippled,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 18th April”

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” From Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, who diedContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 17th April”

“Walk out on your driveway, or on a pavement around your home and study the concrete closely; it’s starting to break. The earth will only tolerate tarmac for so long. How do those buds make their way through inches, even feet, of solid industrial paving, to send a few gentle sprouts up to the openContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 16th April”

“Owning up to being an animal, a creature of Earth. Tuning our animal senses to the sensible terrain: blending our skin with the rain-rippled surface of rivers, mingling our ears with the thunder and the thrumming of frogs, and our eyes with the molten gray sky. Feeling the polyrhythmic pulse of this place – thisContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 15th April”