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“We can no longer let the people in power decide what is politically possible. We can no longer let the people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not blah, blah, blah. Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people.” Greta Thunberg,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 15th March”

“Tikkun Olam (repair of the world): Insofar as a progressive spirituality is committed to a politics that makes the world safe for itself, such a spirituality realizes itself in action. It strives in large and small ways to provide the fundamental preconditions for human dignity and planetary survival: food, shelter, a fair share of theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 14th March”

“To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.” Joseph Priestley, scientist, liberal political theorist, and Unitarian minister, born onContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 13th March”

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.” TerryContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 12th March”

“Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 11th March”

“When the life-force of the universe and the vigour that runs through our bodies are aligned with our spiritual core, then we experience our true power and live with it. The difference between living with power and simply behaving powerfully lies in one thing: those who inhabit their power by aligning with the universe freelyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 10th March”

“Self-knowledge is so important that I do not care how high you are raised up to the heavens, I never want you to cease cultivating it. As long as we are on this earth, there is nothing more essential than humility. Enter the room of self-knowledge first, instead of floating off to the other places.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 9th March”

“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” Audre Lorde

“The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.” Mechthild of Magdeburg

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” Louisa May Alcott, writer and Unitarian, who died on thisContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 6th March”