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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 2nd August”

A Happy Lammas / Lughnasadh to you! “This is the beginning of the harvest time when the sun and the rains swell the seeds and ripen the fruits. Misty mornings and colder nights remind us that we have passed the longest day, and the cycle of the year is turning, as we dance on theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 1st August”

“The shapes and colours of flowers and fruit, the curling of a wave or a tendril, the song of birds, the graceful movements of living creatures, the regularity of a crystal or a snowflake – all these and many more things are part of the beauty of the world. It is this which enables usContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 31st July”

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FRIENDSHIP “Oh, the comfort—the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person—having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 30th July”

“Precisely what does it mean to experience oneself as a human being? In the first place, it means that the individual must have a sense of kinship to life that transcends and goes beyond the immediate kinship of family or the organized kinship that binds him ethnically or racially or nationally. He has to feelContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 29th July”

“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.” Beatrix Potter, Unitarian writer, born on this day in 1866

“Enlightenment is to stay as you are. Stay as you are without such labels as “I am enlightened”, “I am a free man”, “I am a sage”, “I am a monk”, or “I am a saint”.Simply, don’t give yourself any label.When you get rid of all labels, that which remains is called “freedom” or “enlightenment”.WhenContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 27th July”

“To our indigenous ancestors, and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their oral traditions, language is less a human possession than it is a property of the animate earth itself, an expressive, telluric power in which we, along with the coyotes and the crickets, all participate. Each creature enacts this expressiveContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 26th July”

“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.I have tried this experiment a thousand times and I have never been disappointed. The more I look at a thing, the more I see in it, andContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 25th July”

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” Amelia Earhart, aviator, born on this day in 1897