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“God is a being beyond being and a nothingness beyond being. The most beautiful thing which a person can say about God would be for that person to remain silent from the wisdom of an inner wealth. So, be silent and quit flapping your gums about God.” Meister Eckhart (1260 – 1328)

A poem for World Migratory Bird Day – Puffinus Puffinus [Manx Shearwater] by David Lewis “Historical crooner, troll-like in burrowsyour eerie cries are supernatural.Lacking red, yellow and orangebut you shear the air to make up for it.I walked a few steps around your island once.Got so tired in a day with sandwiches and pop.Marvelled atContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 13th May”

“The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.” Florence Nightingale, raised Unitarian, born on this day in 1820

“You are ever close. You are inside, outside, in every vein, in creepers and leaves, immanent and transcendent… All are God’s children. There is no question of high and low. He extends His hand towards anyone who wants His lap… Once the right action starts there is no fall.. What does it mean to enterContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 11th May”

“People are the measures of God’s principles; our morality the instrument of his justice, which stills alike the waves of the sea, the tumult of the people, and the oppressor’s brutal rage. Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of humanity, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of humankind. The ideal mustContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 10th May”

“May, and among the miles of leafing,blossoms storm out of the darkness—windflowers and moccasin flowers. The beesdive into them and I too, to gathertheir spiritual honey. Mute and meek, yet theirsis the deepest certainty that this existence too—this sense of well-being, the flourishingof the physical body—ridesnear the hub of the miracle that everythingis a partContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 9th May”

“We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that.. Surely we all have a responsibility to care for our Blue Planet. The future of humanity andContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 8th May”

“Through compassion human beings imitate God… We find these two things, compassion and justice, in all the works of God.” Thomas Aquinas

“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces itContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 6th May”

Happy Vesak (Buddha Day) “With a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings, suffusing the whole world with unobstructed loving-kindness.” Metta Sutra