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“The mind ascends to God not through the accumulation of knowledge, but through the letting go of all that it knows.” Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – 384)

“May the tree of our life be firmly rooted in the soil of love. Let good deeds be the leaves on that tree; may words of kindness form its flowers; may peace be its fruit.” Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, also known as Amma

“What is a blessing but a rain of gracefalling generously into the lives of those in need;and who among us is without need?May the Spirit touch your spirit in this midmorning pause.May this day be a pathway strewn with blessings.May your work this day be your love made visible.May you breathe upon the wounds ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 7th December”

“We notice and remember features about walking journeys that are not apparent to us when we drive. The spirit of the land cannot speak to us directly when we speed through it; it cannot catch our eyes through the outstretched branches of the trees, or in the gleam of hidden water, or in the deer-brownContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 6th December”

World Soil Day “’Do you pray?’ a good friend asked me recently. ‘I just wondered where you get your hope from?’ It’s a bit of an odd question to ask someone who doesn’t believe in God… ‘I don’t pray in the way that I grew up praying but I suppose I do pray,’ I tellContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 5th December”

“Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.” Edith Cavell (1865 – 1915), nurse executed for helping Allied soldiers escape occupied Belgium, born on this day

“Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial side effect of contemporary life. That winter hour, though, up on the summit ridge with the stars falling plainly far above, it seemed to me that our estrangement from the dark was aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 3rd December”

“My God, so gently life begins again today,as yesterday and so many times before.Like these butterflies, like these laborers,like these sun devouring cicadasand these blackbirds hidden in the cold dark leaves,let me, oh my God, continue to live my lifeas simply as possible.” Francis Jammes, French poet (1868 – 1938), born on this day

“”Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day… The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”Seneca, Moral Letters, 101.7b-8a “Live each day as if it were your last”Continue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 1st December”

Saint Andrew’s Day “Clear as the endless ecstasy of starsThat mount for ever on an intense air;Or running pools, of water cold and rare,In chiselled gorges deep amid the scaurs,So still, the bright dawn were their best device,Yet like a thought that has no end they flow;Or Venus, when her white unearthly glowSharpens like aweContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 30th November”