Perpetual Meditation Calendar

Contents List:

Purpose and Use
How to Access
About the Illustrations

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While anthologies of pithy quotations can be very useful as sources, their very richness tends to inhibit the reader from giving sufficient attention to the individual gems in the collection.
This Perpetual Calendar, which presents one quotation for each day of a fourteen-year permutation, is offered in the hope that it may help you if you make a habit of setting time aside every day for meditation or some other form of contemplative thought. It will also give your mind something to 'chew over' when you have a quiet moment in the course of the day.
The quotations are chosen to harmonise with the seven divisions of the Ardue Temple, starting with 'Life' on Sunday and cycling through 'Love', 'Fear', 'Personal Responsibility', 'Active Service', and 'Balance', ending with 'Satisfaction' on Saturday. It is hoped that this arrangement will suit readers who like to establish a rhythmic pattern in their lives.

How to Access:

New Year's Day	Ordinary Year	Leap Year
Sunday	A	H
Monday	B	I
Tuesday	C	J
Wednesday	D	K
Thursday	E	L
Friday	F	M
Saturday	G	N

In the adjoining table:

The first column in the table lists the day of the week on which a New Year begins.

The second column lists the calendar pages to use when February has 28 days.

The third column lists the calendar pages to use when February has 29 days.

Click on the relevant row and column for the current year to bring up the front page of the appropriate calendar.

About the Illustrations:

The "Front Page" for each year carries a photograph taken in or from Ardue. One picture is entitled Sunset. The theme for all the others is Life at the Margin: each picture exemplifies the struggle Nature requires of plant life if it to survive and thrive in an inhospitable environment. Is humanity not also required by Nature to do likewise?

The photographs for years A through L were taken by my daughter, Màiri. I am responsible for the remaining two.