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“All people are children when they sleep.there’s no war in them then.They open their hands and breathein that quiet rhythm heaven has given them.They pucker their lips like small childrenand open their hands halfway,soldiers and statesmen, servants and masters.The stars stand guardand a haze veils the sky,a few hours when no one will do anybodyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 13th February”

“Finding our true song is about relinquishing the burden of ego and the false choruses that it sings. Self-importance causes us to dance to strange tunes that our feet find unnatural. When we act out of self-importance, we trip ourselves up, make Freudian slips, inadvertently revealing to ourselves and others how far we are fromContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 12th February”

“All thingsAre too smallTo hold meI am so vastIn the infiniteI reachFor the uncreatedI have touched itIt undoes meWider than wideEverything elseIs too narrowYou know this wellWho also live there.” Hadewijch of Antwerp (13th century Beguine)

“Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.” Charles Lamb, Unitarian poet and essayist, born on this day in 1775

“In my travels I spent time with a great yogi. Once he said to me, ‘Become so still you hear the blood flowing through your veins.’ One night as I sat in quiet, I seemed on the verge of entering a world inside so vast I know it is the source of all of us.”Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 9th February”

“Beneath the ground, the seeds are slumbering. During these months, seeds are like time bombs, filled with explosive energy that they will only release at the proper moment. You yourself may be one of these seeds. Perhaps you need a period of rest before you can capitalize on all the power inside you. Or perhapsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 8th February”

“Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.” Charles Dickens, born on this day in 1812 Time and Tide by Alfred Bricher

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” Bob Marley, born on this day in 1945

“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.” Adlai E. Stevenson, born on this day in 1900

“It takes more than one person to bring about peace – it takes all of us.” Rosa Parks, born on this day in 1913