The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
-David Attenborough
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Things good in themselves…perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
Freya Stark, The Lycian Shore (1956)
Weekly Pause and Ponder
All creatures bear the image of the image of the Cosmic Christ though many do not know it. Humans, however, bear both image and likeness of the Cosmic Christ for they are capable of the creativity that is unique to God.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love – and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, “I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won’t breathe in front of my enemies.” Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion for everyone are as much a part of their being as breathing.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi known throughout the world as Ammachi, or Beloved Mother ~
Weekly Pause & Ponder
We invent nothing, truly. We borrow and re-create. We uncover and discover. All has been given, as the mystics say. We have only to open our eyes and hearts, to become one with that which is.
- Henry Miller