What is “healthy humility”? A study of humility in religious leaders by Claire Wolfteich and others “notes that religious leaders must square “humility and stillness” with their need to be “prophetic and engaged” in the noisy public square.” It seemed to us that this is a kind of life requirement for us all not just… Read more »
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#tds662 The 7 ways of Zen Photography
“Zen photography comes naturally with an empty mind. It’s both waiting for a moment where light, shape, and dynamics fall into place, and being devoid of planning in advance. Instead of checking the weather online before a shoot, you just venture out and essentially wing it. It’s all about being in the moment. As a… Read more »
#tds661 Story or Scripture?
“We mostly understand ourselves through an endless series of stories told to ourselves by ourselves and others. The so-called facts of our individual words are highly colored and arbitrary, facts that fit whatever fiction we have chosen to believe in. It is necessary to have a story, an alibi that gets us through the day,… Read more »
#tds660 Simple Everyday Pause
“One simple technique you can employ is to take 10-second pauses throughout your day. After hanging up the phone, before rushing off to the next item on your to-do list, try pausing and sitting still for 10 seconds. When you arrive somewhere in your car, turn off the engine and sit for 10 seconds before getting… Read more »
#tds659 Confessions of a bad meditator
“Meditation asks me to cease—for 20 minutes, twice each day—being a mom, wife, lover, friend, sociologist, author, speaker, coach, teacher. To give up success, in favor of peace. That’s extremely frightening to people like me.” So today, read the article and learn how to work with any fears you may have about finding some still… Read more »
#tds658 Arrange to get tired of yourself
What are you tired of hearing yourself say about yourself? I am somebody who… Who else could you be? What will you arrange to get tired of hearing so as to see the world afresh today? Twitter, and social media generally, would be so calm if only unrehearsed words were typed in… Tweet your response… Read more »
#tds657 Stop
Puppetji wisdom for Monday, laughter brings us into the moment. Your daily today will take you less than 1 minute to complete and a lifetime to practice! Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds657
#tds656 Solitude in the abandoned
Read the wonderful article about Joao’s photographs (Wayback Machine link as old link seems rotted) and extra stillness points if you take your own photo showing ‘solitude in the abandoned’. Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds656
#tds655 The beauty of nothingness
We continue with the wisdom of Alan Watts today. A video of under 4 minutes that was made by Mansell Chan as an assignment! He tells us, “In this motion graphic video, I represent the abstract of the speech by using different states of object and simulations to express and share the art of this… Read more »
#tds654 The real secret of life
Well, why play around with small stuff? We might as well give you the real secret of life today. It is not 42 but it does take 4 minutes to find out…shhhhh! Keep it to yourself or the self improvement business will go out of business 😉 Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure… Read more »
#tds653 Box Breathing from Quiet Kit
Here at the Daily Stillness we like a calming technique that combines breathing and animated gifs! We found the Quiet Kit and it has a number of short meditations that you can try. Today, we suggest you read the simple instructions for Box Breathing and try that through the day to give you islands of… Read more »
#tds652 Futzing as a skill for stillness
‘Active curiosity—and a certain degree of futzing with the technological systems we encounter—is culturally overdue. “The need to have a more calm, tinkering approach to technologies is going to be very, very important,” he said. “I think also the idea that we need to build in the understanding from the outside that our systems are… Read more »
