{"quotes":[{"text":"Mindfulness \u0026 Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being attached to them. Non-attachment to past \u0026 future stems from this practice. Worry about past or future is wasted energy, however we can observe the past \u0026 learn from it without agonising over it \u0026 trust ourselves to handle the future better. We can celebrate the opportunity to grow as we gain understanding from observation \u0026 experience. We can watch ourselves \u0026 avoid being caught up in over-reactions. 'I am loved, right now, in this moment, I love, and am part of love itself. I am aware of myself at every level - the mental slowing gracefully to sense the spiritual within \u0026 all around, and the physical being still, or moving. I tune in to the flow of life in my body \u0026 the flow of life everywhere. I circulate love with each breath - from without to within \u0026 from within to all around.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["awareness","breath","breathing-in-awareness","energy","experience","flow","life","life-philosophy","life","love","meditation","mental","mindfulness","moment","moment-of-being","moments","moments-of-life","moments","movement","non-attachment","observation","over-reaction","physical","reaction","slow-and-steady","slowing-down","stillness","stillness-of-mind","stillness-of-soul","stillness-of-the-mind"],"id":1489,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.","author":"Jared Brock","tags":["inner-life","inner-self","inner-strength","meditation","peace","quiet","shalom","stillness","stillness-of-mind","strength"],"id":34124,"author_id":"Jared+Brock"},{"text":"The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["aesthetic","affection","companionship","companionship","food","food","fortitude","friendship","friendship","love","love","mind","mind-power","mindset","mindset-matters","mindsets","philosophy-of-life","pleasure","pleasure","pleasures-of-life","sensuous","simple-life","simple-life","spiritual-crisis","stillness","stillness-of-mind","stillness-of-the-mind","thinking","thinking"],"id":45678,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on air―the song of sweet, still silence rare.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["poem","poetry","quiet","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","silence","song-of-silence","stillness","stillness-of-mind"],"id":153541,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.","author":"Steve Goodier","tags":["alone","loneliness","lonely","meditation","quietness","solitude","soul","spirit","stillness","stillness-of-mind"],"id":307747,"author_id":"Steve+Goodier"},{"text":"Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["meditation-experience","meditations","mindfulness","mindfulness-and-meditation","mindfulness","peaceful-life","peacefulness","precious-moments","quiet-time","quietude","silence","silence","special-memories","special-moment","special-moments","stillness","stillness-of-mind","stillness-of-the-mind"],"id":450991,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine \u0026 others), even in the midst of so much doing.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["being","being-happy","being-human","being-yourself","clarity","clarity-of-mind","clarity-of-perception","clarity-of-thinking","clarity-of-thought","doing","present-moment","stillness","stillness-of-mind","stillness-of-soul","stillness-of-the-mind"],"id":468135,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}