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“Our soul must perform two duties.The one is we must reverently wonder and be surprised;the other is we must gently let goand let be always taking pleasure in God.” Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 – c. 1416), quoted in Christian Mystics by Matthew Fox

“It is quite impossible to unite happiness with a yearning for what we don’t have. Happiness has all that it wants, and resembling the well-fed, there shouldn’t be hunger or thirst.” From the Discourses of Epictetus 3.24.17, Greek Stoic Philosopher (c. 50 – c. 135)

“As the stores close, a winter lightopens air to iris blue,glint of frost through the smokegrains of mica, salt of the sidewalk.As the buildings close, released autonomousfeet pattern the streetsin hurry and stroll; balloon headsdrift and dive above them; the bodiesaren’t really there.As the lights brighten, as the sky darkens,a woman with crooked heels saysContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 16th February”

“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 15th February”

St Valentine’s Day “A life without love is a waste. ‘Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?’, don’t ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn’t need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the centre, or you are out, yearning.”Continue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 14th February”

“You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,and I smile, and am silent,and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom.The water flows.” Li Po (701 – 762)

“Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests… temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.” Charles DarwinContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 12th February”

Thought for the day, Sunday 11th February “As I walked out of the door towards the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013), released from prison on this day in 1990 after 27 yearsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 11th February”

“The space within us reaches out, translates each thing.For the essence of a tree to be real for you,cast inner space around it, out of the spacethat exists in you. Encircle it with restraint.It has no borders. Only in the realmof your renouncing can it, as tree, be known.” Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)

“Nature and Grace are in harmony with each other. For Grace is God and Nature is God. Neither Nature nor Grace works without the other. They may never be separated… That Goodness that is Nature is God. God is the Ground, the substance, the same that is Naturehood. God is the true Father and MotherContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 9th February”