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“Life is a gift which we have not earned and for which we cannot pay. There is no necessity that there be a universe, no inevitability about a world moving towards life and then self-awareness. There might have been … nothing at all. Since we have not earned J. S. Bach – or friends orContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 13th July”

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison… If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 12th July”

“The great way isn’t difficult for those who are unattached to their preferences.Let go of longing and aversion, and everything will be perfectly clear.When you cling to a hairbreadth of distinction, heaven and earth are set apart.If you want to realize the truth, don’t be for or against.The struggle between good and evil is theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 11th July”

“When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to the investigation of his movement we must accept this as a physical fact. But can anyone doubt to-day that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 10th July”

“Grant us to walk in beauty, seeing the uncommon in the common, aware of the great stream of wonder in which we and all things move. Give us to see more deeply into the great things of our heritage, and the simple but sublime truths hidden in every leaf and every rock. May our handsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 9th July”

“I am the breath of the Most High, blanketing the earth like mist, filling the sky with towering clouds.I encompass distant galaxies, and walk in the innermost abyss.Over crest and trough, over sea and land, over every people and nation I hold sway…Before time, at the beginning of beginnings, God created Me. And I shallContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 8th July”

“There is a bird on this body treeThat dances in the ecstasy of life.No one knows where it is,And who could ever knowWhat its music means?It nests where branches cast deep shadow;It comes in the dusk and flies away at dawnAnd never says a word of what it intends. No one can tell me anythingAboutContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 7th July”

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” Frida Kahlo, born on this day in 1907

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” Isaac Newton, whose Principia, outlining his laws of motion and universal gravitation, was published the by Royal Society on this day in 1687

“We have become used to the possession of certain inalienable rights: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, among others, in our modern world. These are rights that we take for granted, that are enshrined in constitutions and maintained by the law of the land; and yet even within civilized societies there are many who doContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 4th July”