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“Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance.” Samuel Pepys, born on this day in 1633

“In the old fairy tales princes were always being turned into frogs, and princesses who wanted husbands were always being asked to kiss them. Maybe this is a Jungian parable about love – how it requires that you accept the animal within people if you want to enjoy their more “civilized” attributes as well. PerhapsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 22nd February”

“Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.” Nina Simone, born on this day in 1933

“”If the doors of perception are cleansed, everything would appear as it is, infinite.” William Blake The doors of perception are the senses – not only the physical senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, but also the subtle senses of inner vision, resonance instinct, discrimination, and empathy. Without the cooperation of these twoContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 20th February”

“Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.” Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, born on this day in 1473

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“On this day in 1917, a street in Baltimore was the first anywhere to be lit with gas. This was the beginning of a curse for astronomers, who would come to revile city lights for interfering with their telescopes. Yet it had its advantages as well. It made the night a safer place and helpedContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 17th February”

“Where, then, is God? In the conclusion of some argument? The final clause of some syllogism? No, the God you can argue yourself into finding is a God you can argue yourself into losing. The living God is in the life itself. God is in the miseries of the world waiting to be ended, inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 16th February”

“Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.” Susan B. Anthony, suffragette, born on this day in 1820

“There is a candle in your heart,ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul,ready to be filled.You feel it, don’t you ?You feel the separationfrom the Beloved.Invite Him to fill you up,embrace the fire.Remind those who tell you otherwise thatLovecomes to you of its own accord,and the yearning for itcannot be learned inContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 14th February”