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International Youth Day “Please bring strange things.Please come bringing new things.Let very old things come into your hands.Let what you do not know come into your eyes.Let desert sand harden your feet.Let the arch of your feet be the mountains.Let the path of our fingertips be your mapsand the ways you go be the linesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 12th August”

“Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.” Children’s author Enid Blyton, born on this day in 1897

“Action that is in accordance with duty, performed without attachment and aversion, and done without desire for rewards, is action in the mode of goodness.” Bhagavad Gita (Song of God) 18:23, composed in India in around 200 BCE

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples “In a culture of gratitude, everyone knows that gifts will follow the circle of reciprocity and flow back to you again. This time you give and next time your receive. Both the honour of giving and the humility of receiving are necessary halves of the equation. The grassContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 9th August”

“Our culture often frowns on crying, seeing it as weakness or a loss of control. But tears, like all water, cleanse and purify. When our faces are wet with tears we have been baptized in a way – a natural baptism, sometimes performed for us without our even asking. And our tears also contain theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 8th August”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy.I awoke and saw that life was service.I acted and behold, service was joy.” Rabindranath Tagore, died on this day in 1941

“As we solemnly mark today’s anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, it is heartening to note that the most enduring symbol of healing is a symbol from nature. Centuries ago, Japanese civilization began venerating the crane, and the image of thousands of cranes became common in artwork. The crane was known for long life, and origamiContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 6th August”

“Man cannot long separate himself from nature without withering as a cut rose in a vase. One of the deceptive aspects of mind in man is to give him the illusion of being distinct from and over against but not a part of nature. It is but a single leap thus to regard nature asContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 5th August”

“Where there is justice, there is love. And sometimes, where there is love, there is justice.” From the Zohar (masterpiece of Kabbalah), first printed on this day in 1558

“The cave and rock paintings of the ancient world depict bison, mammoth, horse, and deer, all of which have a powerful presence not found in domesticated animals. These wild creatures who prefigure a primal world of nature are figurative of more than meat and hide: they hold and mediate spiritual powers greater than the presentContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 3rd August”