“The voice of wisdom is inherent within us and willing to guide us when we stop to listen. Of course, there are times when we feel we've been still as stone, and the still, small voice is still too quiet to hear. When this happens, the challenge is to practice quieting your mind anyway. Stopping and asking, quieting and listening, trusting and waiting. Waiting is difficult but worth the effort because a quiet, uncluttered mind is a natural antenna for whispers of wisdom from within.” FeelsMindStillsWisdomHappensCoursesWaitingDifficultVoiceNaturalChallengesEffortPracticeWillingListeningQuietStonesAskingGuidesInherentStoppingSmall VoiceAntenna Book:The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart Source: The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart
“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.” MayHas BeensHardPlayValuesForceChallengesProgressHonestyHard WorkDependsReturnQuietFairsInstrumentsCuriosityLoyaltyToleranceInaugurationInauguralFair Play Author:Barack Obama
“All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.” IfsWayMindCoursesLeftWishChallengesDealsWorrySupportFineCitizensQuietAuthorityEvidenceObedienceConformityInvitesTolerateProvokingSurveillanceBargainsRefrainOwn BusinessLeft AloneHighlightsPassivityImplicitWrongdoingMind Your Own BusinessMind Your Own Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.” GivingSoulInterestChallengesAcceptingWillingQuietConcernGuidesYour SoulTake TimeRetreatPitsQuiet Place Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.” GivingReadingEnergyChallengesSpaceMeditationQuietFindingsReflectionGive MeClarityEnthusiasmSpace BetweenNew ChallengesQuiet Time Author:Jaime Murray
“I think that one of the challenges for a parent and myself as a parent is that we live in a very electronic media age. That's obvious to everyone. And I'm not opposed to time on computers or time with television or time with any other electronic media but I think that quiet, thoughtful interaction between one's self, your mind and words is an irreplacable thing.” ThinkingMindSelfAgeParentChallengesMediaTelevisionQuietComputerObviousThoughtfulInteractionElectronic Media Author:Josh Prince
“Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.” PeopleMeanInterestChallengesAnimalQuietProveDisappearHillsInsatiableRarity Author:Tilda Swinton
“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.” IfsMenShouldHandsInspirationDeathChallengesQuietForgivenessLuckSuicideKillingBe KindGun ControlQuarrelsDisapprovalEye OpeningQuiet PlaceDisapprovingDueling Author:Mark Twain