{"query": "The Knowing That Comes Through Stillness", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a44b6bc5aade", "title": "The Knowing That Comes Through Stillness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThere is a particular kind of knowing that cannot be forced or studied into existence. The psalmist does not say \"work harder and know\" or \"speak more and know.\" H"}, {"id": "card_c_21fc13edbf77", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens ↔ The Knowing That Comes Through Stillness", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "But notice what stillness is for... It is the posture that makes a particular kind of knowing possible.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_ea5725d67984", "title": "The Stillness Is the Instruction", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThe command is strange by any practical measure. When the world presses in — when noise accumulates and demands multiply — the expected counsel is to act faster, p"}, {"id": "card_n_3df9cadb44a4", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nSaturdays carry a peculiar pull — errands accumulate, the week's unfinished business presses in, and the mind races toward tomorrow before today has properly arriv"}, {"id": "card_n_8b8bf6ae4ebb", "title": "What the Quiet Reveals", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThere is a difference between silence and stillness. Silence is simply the absence of noise. Stillness, as the psalm commands it, is the active settling of a restl"}, {"id": "card_n_a6c94441bfe4", "title": "Romans 6", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?\n2. May it never be! 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For it ex"}, {"id": "card_n_2a9279be1c2e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_011: What then do I love, when I love my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then do I love, when I love my God? who is He above the head of my soul? By my very soul will I ascend to Him. I will pass beyond that power whereby I am united to my body, and fill its whole fra"}, {"id": "card_n_8375b1560917", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xiv: From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good si...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good sister, good masters, good domestics, loving kinsmen, almost all that I have; and that I never through haste and rashness tra"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_119_162", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:162", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 119:162 — Here is, 1. The pleasure David took in the word of God. He rejoiced at it, rejoiced that God had made such a discovery of his mind, that Israel was blessed with that light when oth"}, {"id": "card_n_54e3f98be926", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §218: Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where this lu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where this lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, must needs go out of the wor"}, {"id": "card_n_ac431df2f39c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §212: EVAN.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "EVAN. 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But thou camest not in at the wicket-gate that is at the head of this way; thou camest in hither through that same crooked lane, and therefore, I fear, however thou mayest think of thyself, when "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_numbers_36_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Numbers 36:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Numbers 36:1 — We have here the humble address which the heads of the tribe of Manasseh made to Moses and the princes, on occasion of the order lately made concerning the daughters of Zelophehad. T"}]}