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International Day of Democracy “If people have confidence in the democratic process, it engenders hope, and nothing is more essential to the human spirit than hope.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, novelist, born on this day in 1977

“Divine spirit, give us the strengthto act honourably and respectfullytowards the earth and all her creatures,including our own species.Give us the power to act now, andlet co-operation, not competition,be our default mode of being.Amen.” Maria Curtis, Unitarian minister, quoted in Fragments of Holiness for Daily Reflection

“You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.” From Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990), born on this day

“I am dust particles in sunlight.I am the round sun. To the bits of dust I say, Stay.To the sun, Keep moving. I am morning mist,and the breathing of evening. I am wind in the top of a grove,and surf on the cliff. Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founderContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 12th September”

“Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves–a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that’s God, for others it’s nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning ourContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 11th September”

“Animism is the way humanity has been deeply connected to the land and its seasonal cycles for millennia, in rapport and conversation with the animals, plants, elements, ancestors and earth spirits. The opposite of animism is the “cult of the individual” so celebrated in modern society, and the loss of the animist worldview is atContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 10th September”

“Perhaps this is the deepest impression left by life in India, the sense of the sacred as something pervading the whole order of nature. Every hill and tree and river is holy, and the simplest human acts of eating and drinking, still more of birth and marriage, have all retained their sacred character… In theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 9th September”

“The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and unerringly a new revelation can enter us, and the more we can make it our own. Later on when it “happens” – when it manifests in our response to another person – we will feel it asContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 8th September”

“Over the infinity of space and time, the infinitely more infinite love of God comes to possess us. He comes at his own time. We have the power to consent to receive him or to refuse. If we remain deaf, he comes back again and again like a beggar, but also, like a beggar, oneContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 7th September”

“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them.” Jane Addams, pioneer social worker, women’s suffrage campaigner and pacifist (1860 – 1935), born on this day