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“My prayer wheel is the turning year,the sun my confessor, my priestess the moon.My daily offices are morning mist, evening swallows,hush of midnight.My scripture, white clouds on blue emptiness;pictograms of geese, pointing South.I gave up theology to watch the bees make honey.My anointing is the mud between my toes.The barefoot poet, Jesus, taught me toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 23rd July”

“O my Beloved, You have searched me and known me!You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You discern my innermost thoughts.You find me on the journey and guide my steps; You know my strengths and weaknesses.Even before words rise up in prayer, Lo, You have already heard my heart call.You encompassContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 22nd July”

“Just as one sucks the juice from the sugarcane and spits out the stalk, the religious leaders should encourage their followers to imbibe the essence of religion—which is spirituality—and not give over-importance to the external aspects… May the tree of our life be firmly rooted in the soil of love. Let good deeds be theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 21st July”

INTERNATIONAL MOON DAY “What do you say, Percy? I am thinkingof sitting out on the sand to watchthe moon rise. It’s full tonight.So we goand the moon rises, so beautiful itmakes me shudder, makes me think abouttime and space, makes me takemeasure of myself: one iotapondering heaven. Thus we sit, myselfthinking how grateful I amContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 20th July”

“The manifold delightI learn to take in earthly thingscan never drive mefrom my love.For, in the nobility of creatures,in their beautyand in their usefulness,I will love God… This is why I bless God in my heartwithout ceasing for every earthly thing.And this is why God gave us a mouth –to praise Godwith inconceivable praisein commonContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 19th July”

“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” Nelson Mandela, born on thisContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 18th July”

“Make it your daily disciplineto lay aside one little thing,a tiny fear, a simple preconception,a useless book, a piece of household clutter,a habit of avoidance, a bit of shame or guilt,a desire that distracts,even a good intention.What will be left is Life itself.” From The Sage’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for the Second HalfContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 17th July”

“Nothing can live in Love, and nothing can touch her except desire. The most secret name of Love is this touch, and this mode of working rises from Love itself. For Love is incessantly desiring, touching, and feeding on herself, while remaining totally perfect in herself. Love can live in all things. Love can liveContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 16th July”

“These days schoolchildren all learn about continental drift. One only has to look at a globe for half a minute to understand this theory, to see how South America might fit inside Africa’s curve, how Australia might have nestled next to India. But geophysicists are creating theories even more dramatic. The theory of the supercontinentContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 15th July”

“The Celtic peoples held birds in high esteem, as the mouthpieces of Spirit. Their flight and calls were widely used in divination. The term “language of the birds” is used to mean the secret knowledge that runs beneath the web of words; it implies an almost magical intelligence that does not depend upon the helpContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 14th July”