Spirituality
What does spirituality mean to us at Church Lench CE First School ?
Finding our own 'wow' and feeling safe to explore our world and the wonder of us. We understand spirituality as a feeling, a thought, a sense of belonging, living in the moment and an individual journey that builds on our previous knowledge and experiences.
We embrace the power of feeling spiritual and make sure that we have times in the school day to reflect and think about things we have learnt or seen and how these have made us feel. We also try and capture moments of awe and wonder and give time to our children and adults to drink in these moments and feel connected.
'If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity'.
'The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science'.
Albert Einstein
'When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love'.
'Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself'.
Hermann Hesse
'This moment is all there is'. Rumi
'The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself'.
Henry Miller
'Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts'. Benjamin Disraeli
'You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this'.
'It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart'.
Mahatma Gandhi
'The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are'.
Carl Jung
'Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.'