Thought for the Week

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Love is in the air. Breathe it in, let it enter your every cell. Allow it to pervade into the core of your being. Be at one with love and live it. Breathe it out, share it with all others. Know that we all share the same breath, the same love, we are one.

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Silver Birch

It is very sad when those who have the knowledge do not behave in accordance with its implications.

We are aware of all human failings, and recognise that we are dealing with people imperfect like ourselves who still have much progress to make.

We cannot function where there is disharmony. The power of the spirit must of necessity work where there is a unity of purpose, co-operation, concord and the desire to serve, to do what is best for others who are unaware of these great truths.

So if the time comes when you cannot achieve harmony, it is best to part company.

Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say "lives," I do not mean exists, nor "muddles through." Which of us is free from that uneasy feeling that the "great spending departments" of his daily life are not managed as they ought to be? [...] Which of us is not saying to himself -- which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
Arnold Bennett

I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it. When you love God and when you see God in every soul, you can not be mean. If someone behaves hurtfully toward you, think of the best ways to behave lovingly toward him.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Conquer the angry man by love.
Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness.
Conquer the miser with generosity.
Conquer the liar with truth.
The Dhammapada

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.

Adlin Sinclair

You are the Great Spirit in miniature.

That power can grow, expand, unfold, enlarge, flourish, bloom,as you allow it to do so. You determine its growth, none elso can do it for you; that is the purpose of earthly life.

Realise that you are the Great Spirit and you realise that the kingdom of heaven is within you. It cannot fail.

Silver Birch

In the noble eightfold path, what is Right Action? Not to kill, not to steal, and not to engage in sexual misconduct.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

If you find a good companion, who is following the same spiritual path, travel together, overcoming obstacles as they arise. - Buddha

“Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’

Actually who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others”

Nelson Mandela’s inaugural address submitted by Sarah Stevens.