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International Day of Peace “When I think of peace, I think of a world where human beings are no longer brutalized on account of such accidents of birth as sex, race, religion, or nationality. For me, peace is a way of structuring human relations where daily acts of kindness and caring are tangibly rewarded. ItContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 21st September”

“Cleaning and cleansing through movement is the pattern of earth’s nomadic peoples. They do not remain long in one place for many reasons, but chief of these is that the land on which they have rested becomes “worn out”. The act of moving on, then, is for them an act of renewal and care, allowingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 20th September”

“Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.” Thich Nhat Hanh

“How can I get to know myself? Not by thinking, for thinking only reflects my conscious being, but by meditating. Meditation goes beyond the conscious mind into the unconscious. In meditation I can become aware of the ground of my being in matter, in life, in human consciousness. I can experience my solidarity with theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 18th September”

“The earth is mother,she is mother of all that is natural,mother of all that is human…The earth should not be injured.The earth should not be destroyed…All nature is at the disposal of humankind.We are to work with it.Without it we can not survive…With nature’s help,humankind can set into creationall that is necessary and life-sustaining.” HildegardContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 17th September”

“I’m trying to get people to see that we are our brother’s keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.” Riley B. King (better known as B. B. King), born on this day in 1925

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DEMOCRACY “Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.” Rigoberta Menchú Tum, K’iche’ Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

“The leaves are turning and change is in the air… As the palette of nature changes and the fall colors grow more intense, embrace your own changes. That which does not change is not fully alive. As humans in chaos, we sometimes long for stability, but flux and ongoing evolution bring us to our fullestContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 14th September”

“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.” Michael Faraday, who discovered the ‘Faraday effect’, the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light, on this day in 1845

“It was early,which has always been my hourto begin lookingat the world and of course,even in the darkness,to beginlistening into it, especiallyunder the pineswhere the owl livesand sometimes calls out as I walk by,as he didon this morning.So many gifts! What do they mean?In the marsheswhere the pink lightwas just arriving the minkwith his bristleContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 12th September”