‘Observe how the mind labels the present moment and how this labelling process, this continuous sitting in judgment, creates pain and unhappiness. By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be. This will give you a taste of the state of inner freedom from external conditions, the state of true inner peace.’ Eckhart Tolle
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Thought for September 2021
“Real safety is your willingness to not run away from yourself.” Pema Chödrön
Thought for August 2021
‘There is a universal need for some kind of ‘sabbath time’ in our lives: a time to withdraw from the relentless action of our routine commitments so as to understand better the nature of our daily treadmill; a stepping out of the parade so as to see it more clearly from a distance; a moment of difference in order to explore the sameness of the repetitions of our lives………..During a real vacation, we make room for dreaming, for rediscovering the kernel of our being, for playing safely with bare feet……sabbath-time is for a lot of re-routing, for some fairly urgent u-turns and for finding a way out of the many newly discovered cul-de-sacs we have long been lost in.’
Daniel O’Leary
Thought for July 2021
‘To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.’ Pema Chödrön
Thought for June 2021
‘What we need is to spend more time and give more awareness to deepening our sense of connection with the magic and love and creative energy of life. This does not happen just inside formal spiritual situations, but happens all the time in many different ways. We can open our hearts and expand our benevolent awareness in all circumstances.’ William Bloom
Thought for May 2021
‘Silence can open a door on a new dimension of reality. It is like finding a trap door or a secret passage, giving a way out of our usual ego-dominated existence. Where there seemed to be only an endless, grey alley of concrete and mortar, or a prison of velvet walls with scarcely air to breathe, in silence suddenly we find ourselves in open country.’
Morton T Kelsey
Thought for April 2021
The dying leaves of a hundred million autumns have built up the humus from which our crops spring…… A hard, polished acorn falls to the ground and cracks open, but it sends one shoot down and another up, and later there is a tree. Life springs and grows where the bearers of life do not clutch it to themselves, but hear the call to let it go in the interests of fuller life and action.
Maria Boulding.
Thought for March 2021
‘To confuse your physical body with your self is a recipe for misery. For though our bodies are miracles, they are ageing, faltering, fragile, collapsing, vulnerable, disintegrating miracles. To ally ourselves with them is as wise as leaping onto a bus as it heads towards the cliff edge. Our physical bodies are not the future, and therefore they cannot be our present either. They are not us. We live with them as best we can, and for some that is a good deal easier than for others. But we never imagine that they define us or contain us.’ Simon Parke
Thought for February 2021
‘Why try to start by changing the problem? Why not begin sometimes by changing our reaction to the problem?’ Christophe André
Thought for New Year
‘Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that. You cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring that you want something new. The old will defy the new; the old will deny the new; the old will decry the new. There is only one way to bring in the new. you must make room for it.’ Neale Donald Walsch
Susannah Izzard Psychotherapy 