‘I loaf and invite my soul. I lean and loaf at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.’ Walt Whitman
Category: Thought for the month
Thought for July
‘Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside to the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.’ The Bright Field, R S Thomas
Thought for June
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Dr. Howard Thurman (1899-1981), theologian and civil rights leader
Thought for May
‘Never forget that every mind is shaped by the most ordinary experiences. To say that something is ordinary is to say that it is of the kind that has made the biggest contribution to the formation of your most basic ideas.’ Paul Valéry.
Thought for April
‘Again, the season of Spring has come and a spring-source rises under everything, a moon sliding from the shadows.’ Rumi
Thought for March
‘Compassion is essential to human relationships and to a fulfilled humanity. It is the path to enlightenment, and indispensable to the creation of a just economy and a peaceful global community.”
From : Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
Thought for February
‘If you do not make use of this free and precious life, what good does it do to possess a human body?’ Shabkar. (Sand sculpture by Suzanne Clackson)
Thought for January
We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment – not just poetically or figuratively, but literally – every moment we are dying and being reborn, we and all of life. Sharon Salzberg
Thought for December
‘we sense that something is missing in our lives and search the world for it, not understanding that what is missing is us.’ Parker J Palmer
Thought for November
‘Every one of us carries a deforming mirror, where he sees himself too small or too large, too fat or too thin………Once the deforming mirror is smashed, there is the possibility of wholeness, there is the possibility of joy. Anais Nin
Susannah Izzard Yoga 