Endorsements
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The purpose of art is to offer a perspective that is not within our everyday way of understanding, our normal way of seeing, or our habitual state of being. It is to offer something fresh.
This is what Justthisday is offering; a way of allowing people something new through stillness.
Stillness allows access to something exciting, deep and universal; it can lead everyone to their desired state of being.In the same way the viewer must rest in order to appreciate art, anyone falling still is able to appreciate the world around them and their own self.”
It has been said that most of the world’s problems are caused by the human inability to sit still. I am therefore delighted to support an initiative which simply invites the whole world to sit still for a few minutes.
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
With all the negativity in today’s world and the constant barrage of bad news, we need to find the energy to change the world for the better again. I believe there is no other way to do this than to join together in stillness, where we can experience our own inner peace and affirm our common humanity.
Making time to go deep within and create a strong foundation of inner dignity enables us to create our own foundation of peace and power and recognise our inner treasures. We are then ready not only to value ourselves but to extend that value and respect to all others.
The power of spirituality and the dignity of my own spiritual being enable me to transcend situations of discrimination, conflict and distress. The power of the spirit is really the greatest power that humanity has and now is the moment for discovering this.
Many today lead busy lives that seem not to allow time for stillness. The Brahma Kumaris’ initiative just-a-minute invites people to introduce regular one-minute periods of silence into their busy lives. A minute is all it takes to experience my own inner peace.
The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is very pleased to support Just This Day again in 2009.
Escuela de Filosofía Práctica – Buenos Aires
It is delightful that this is a worldwide initiative. We would like to offer the School building in Buenos Aires as a venue for the event and at the same time hope that ‘Just This Day’ reminds the world that there is only one venue where we can all meet. We look forward to joining you all in that quiet space on the 23rd November.
Silent, still awareness is our common denominator. To be willing to allow the mind to rest in the peace of silence is the same willingness to meet all, everything and everybody as oneself.
“Just This Day” is the invitation to be yourself as silence. To be yourself as all.
The School of Economic Science
Just this day is a reminder that worldly life is like playing on the front of stage whilst meditation involves going backstage. This gives peace and fresh energy to meet the world harmoniously and well.
We live in a world of movement and change, but, within that everchanging complexity is a still centre which is in us all. It is the inner self of everyone, and to find it, is to bring peace and harmony to others as well as oneself. “Just This Day” offers an opportunity to share this possibility.
The World Community for Christian Meditation
If we could all touch into the still point of consciousness around which all human action and thought revolve, what would we find? Unity in diversity, hope amid our problems, healing for our conflicts. ‘Just This Day’ creates a special moment in the human family to allow this new way of seeing that is developing globally to expand and enrich our spirit.
Dancers learn so many ways to move in order to increase their vocabulary of actions. The length of dance phrases, the placing, timing, repetition and density of movements are all necessary to develop a form that allows dance to become more readable.
Pauses and stillness are part of this but there are many distinct qualities to stillness rather than representing an emptiness or movement.
Stillness to gain breath
Stillness with power
Gathering stillness
Preparing for movement
Distancing Movement
Stillness that draws or drains energy
Stillness to think and choose
Stillness to shift time
Stillness to be seen
Stillness to observe
On November 23rd, Siobhan Davies will remember the collective stillness that Just This Day offers everyone.
May I congratulate you all for bringing “Justthisday” into our lives, for not only will it offer the quiet space so badly needed by each one of us, it will unite us all in the one thing no religion or nation has claimed as its own; silence. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again for fulfilling this basic need we all have – for the space and the opportunity to be silent.
David thanks everyone at just this day for all that you do to make the world a better place for us all.
As part of a series of talks at St Paul’s Cathedral in 2007, Camilla spoke about the need for stillness in all our lives. She said:
“Give up the prison and get enriched by connecting with one another in a limitless space”
The mind in its essential nature is absolutely pure. But just as the water trickles down the mountain, the mind, drawn by the attractions and temptations of sense objects, trickles down from its pure, blissful nature towards transient pleasures. We must make a firm decision to lead the mind back to its source, its home, its pure state of calm and peaceful beauty.All spiritual practices are performed to attain this condition of the mind. Meditation is one such practice that purifies the mind.
I congratulate the organisers of Just This Day for raising awareness of Meditation – it is the most powerful technique for self improvement and discovery of peace, strength and happiness.
The ability to be deeply still is critical in leadership, so that new and transformational futures can be created that break entrenched positions and conflicts. Through stillness, the abilities of an individual are amplified and they have the space to be all that they can be. That is why Lucca Leadership endorses Just This Day. We hope that through this the ideal of unity can be furthered – that all human beings, of whatever nationality, culture or religion are part of a single human family, and that together humanity can shape a prosperous and peaceful future for all its citizens.
Over the last few years the value of moments of silence experienced by the whole population at the same time but in different places has become a part of our culture as a means of marking significant events. Often these public events have been linked to death, tragedy, or loss in some form. The Retreat Association, since 1993, has promoted the 3rd Saturday in June as a day that will give opportunities to experience silence in a positive and life giving way. We are therefore delighted to give our support to Just this day a new initiative that will encourage people across the world to ‘be still and be’.
Paddy Lane, Executive Officer of the Retreat Association.
The handbook, Retreats 2011, is published next month and can be pre-ordered from our website or by phone on: 01494 433004.
St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Satyananda Yoga Teachers’ Association (SYTA)
Be still and know that you are God. Calm the mind. Enter into silence. Know that silence. Become silence itself.
Seek and ye shall find: the peace you seek is always there. It has been pushed beneath everything else piled on top. Discard suspicion, anger, fear, anxieties, arrogancce and resentments. What is left? PEACE. Let your heart be filled with compassion as commanded by your Lord of mercy & compassion. When your efforts come from a perspective of peace, they become much more effective. Peace gives clarity to your thinking and depth to your understanding. Stillness brings peace and harmony.
To find out more about or current series of talks on Contemplative Life see our website.
People tell us to be in the moment. Where else can we be? We all live in the moment, but not all of us realize that yet. I love the invitation to be still. When we’re still, it’s simple to realize where we are–who we are. Peace is the natural result.
Richard Ritsudo Morrissey, zen buddhist priest
The world arises in stillness.
A stillness that is prior to all suffering.
Here, in this place of great silence,
Is the Real communication of the Heart.
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, Athens, Greece
We wish to participate by having our centres open to ANYONE who wishes to meditate, be in silence for that day. It is timely considering the present state of the world, both personal and collective.
School of Practical Philosophy – Sydney
Your initiative is delightful and unifying and quite, quite simple. Therein lies its inspiration and its beauty.
Resurgence Magazine and Schumacher College
Just this Day is an inspiring vision, everybody who cares for the upliftment of soul and renewal of society should observe the day.
Karma Choeling Buddhist Monastery
If you want Universal Peace,
Start with yourself,
Then your children,
Then your family,
Your community,
Your Nation,
Your World,
Your Universe.
It doesn’t work the other way around.
Live in Peace.
Not in pieces.
Kingston School of Economic Science
Dear Fellow Human-being, Thank you for this initiative. Wherever meditation and stillness arises the heaviness of the world is lifted. May the world meditate on this day and may it restore peace and bliss to all. We shall be delighted to join the rest of the world on the 23rd of November.
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, Sydney
With love and respect in our hearts, a thought we learn to strengthen and stabalize, the impossible will become possible. With these faithful and hopeful thoughts we wish to contribute to this great initiative of jtd and hope it turns into ‘Every day’.
School of Philsosophy, Perth, Western Australia
Thank you for contacting the U.S. Baha’i National Centre about the
“Just this Day” initiative. This is a wonderful and worthwhile project, which we will gladly share with baha’is and their friends.
We wish you much success with your efforts to unite the world through prayer and meditation.
Kagyu Samye Dzong Centre, London
The Buddha’s teachings say:
To give up negative acts,
To practice positive acts,
To tame one’s mind,
This is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
A day of meditation, stillness
and peace is a good step in that direction.
www.samyeling.org/index.php?module=Pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=10&pid=25
JUST THIS DAY is about a truth and the voice that is within us all. It is about the voice that is crying to us all. The voice that knows it is time for us to stop. It is the voice that knows this is no longer a question of luxury or leisure but one of necessity. Our deeper self knows that stillness is essential to our well-being. It knows that stillness and silence is the place of our peace, our freedom and our wisdom. And when we are disconnected from this source in our own being we live in a profoundly disabled state. Our vision is clouded, our actions are distorted and our state radically disempowered.
Our world is screaming – STOP.
And all it needs is for each one of us to begin with one little moment. That one little moment is all it takes to re-connect with our deeper self. And from that re-connection we can begin to see, to hear and to feel again, the deeper truth and meaning within us. It is that deeper meaning within us that is the necessary guide for us to all head in a new direction together. And in this silence is the place of our unity – where we know our self as the one life. It is time to take stock of our self, of our soul, to return our self to sacred balance. It’s not too late. But we must start now. Let us begin with this little moment – let us start here – JUST THIS DAY.
In seeking the Oneness that binds all creation, being still and quiet together can be an amazing and life affirming experience. We forget the different words we use in all our liturgies; we forget the various Names we use to address the Unity and instead are truly together, seeking that One Beyond all of our individual and limited understandings of that Name and we then can rise from that stillness able to understand better and better those things that unite us as creatures of this world so that we can seek peace and harmony within it.
As Bilyay, we fully support this day when powerful energies of peace, happiness and stillness will illuminate the whole universe through our planet. Moments of meditation will enable our spiritual messages to connect to the rest of the universe starting stemming from our hearts. May all the unifying powers of love be upon us all.
In a world where we are constantly making ‘sounds’ highlighting our differences, the possibility of becoming completely silent and still is a powerful means to help us transcend our differences at least for one day and recognise the Oneness or Ekataa of our deeper selves. Project Ekataa and its team fully support Just This Day in creating this opportunity for all people of goodwill around the world to be as One on 24th Nov this year and for many years to come.
