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“”Did you hear what the fish said,Floundering among the reeds?Nature’s wiser than learning.” Fourteenth century Welsh verse In the Celtic and world folk traditions, reminders of this important fact emerge time and time again in stories that tell of speaking animals. All young heroes and heroines who are sent out on the road of adventureContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 28th October”

“Look, with love and faith, not turning sour and cold and bitter, to help others. That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.” Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963), poet, novelist and Unitarian, born on this day

“Let me seek then,the gift of silence,and poverty and solitude,where everything I touchis turned into prayer.Where the sky is my prayer,the birds are my prayer,the wind in the trees is my prayer,for God is in all.” Thomas Merton (1915 – 1968)

“If ten lamps are present in one place,each differs in form from another;Yet you can’t distinguishwhose radiance is whosewhen you focus on the light.In the field of spirit there is no division;no individuals exist.Sweet is the onenessof the Friend with His friends.Catchhold of spirit.Help this headstrongself disintegrate;That beneath ityou may discover unity,Like aburied treasure.” JalaluddinContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 25th October”

“Realize that we were taughtto fear the dark. Consider the seed that splits and unfurlsunseen within the Earth …Consider the inside of the egg;consider the place wherethe Big Bang exploded … Unknown and generative,darkness is unpredictable:limitless possibility.We are in the habitof learning to fear our potential,but imagine embracing rest and dreams … We learned earlyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 24th October”

“If we want to allow creativity its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on topContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 22nd October”

“Leaves are falling, falling as if from afar,as if, far off in the heavens, gardens were wilting.And as they fall, their gestures say “it’s over.” In the night the heavy Earth is fallingfrom out of all the stars into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand here is falling.Just look: it is in all ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 23rd October”

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), Romantic poet and (briefly) Unitarian minister,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 21st October”

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced himContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 20th October”

“Before it’s gone remind meShow me where the wildflowers growTeach me our stories from long agoWho made the sunrise, where does the moon go? Walk me back to the land that owns me,Through the trees that know my nameThe animals, plants and birds, we are but the sameOn the dust of our earth lay meContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 19th October”