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“If we view ALL living things as a gift of GOD, created for our pleasure and enjoyment, to love and respect, to treasure and to guard for our next generations, and look after our own self with the same loving care-the future will be something Not To Be Feared, but treasured.Our todays depend on ourContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 28th August”

“When we can allow things to be just what they are and show up for reality with open hands, clear eyes, and a compassionate heart, a space opens in which there is room for both the fire of desire and also equanimity.” Mirabai Starr

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 26th August”

“It’s not complicated. Your body rooted to the earth, where it is, as it is, its very weight a sacrament, gravity the Mother’s love, pressing you to her breast, and all around the flower of your flesh, the kiss of space. Invisible planets caress you. Inhalation rises through the hollow stem of your spine, effortlesslyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 25th August”

“Be ours a religion which, like sunshine, goes everywhere; its temple, all space; its shrine, the good heart; its creed, all truth; its ritual, works of love; its profession of faith, divine living.” Theodore Parker, Unitarian minister and abolitionist, born on this day in 1810

On Meditating, Sort Of, by Mary Oliver, “Meditation, so I’ve heard, is best accomplishedif you entertain a certain strict posture.Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree.So why should I think I could ever be successful? Some days I fall asleep, or land in thateven better place — half asleep —where the world, spring,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 23rd August”

Inventory by Dorothy Parker, born on this day in 1893, “Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I’d been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till IContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 22nd August”

“Seekers are people of faith even if they do not belong to a particular religion. Faith in this sense is deeper than one’s belief system. Belief systems belong to the level of pluralism; faith to the level of unity. Faith is constitutive of human nature itself. It is openness to Ultimate Mystery. It is theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 21st August”

“Silence is the gift of musicwhen its closing cadence diesin hush of adoration. Silence is fulfilment of desirethat ends in askingto find true prayer unspoken. Silence is the benedictionthat stills the day’s debateby speaking the Eternal Word.” Marjorie Easton

“If we were to walk in the woods and a spring appeared just when we became thirsty, we would call it a miracle. And if on a second walk, if we became thirsty at just that point again, and again the spring appeared, we would remark on the coincidence. But if that spring were thereContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 19th August”