Participants

Below you can see a number of endorsements from organisations and individuals that support Just This Day.

To add your group, organisation, school or place of worship to be part of this circle of friendship, please send us your details and we will list them here.

SIOBHAN DAVIES:
Siobhan Davies Dance Company

‘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 28th, Siobhan Davies will remember the collective stillness that Just This Day offers everyone.


Bishop of Reading: Bishop Stephen Cottrell

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.

Read the full message from Bishop Stephen here. 

World Religions for Peace, European Director,
Jahangir Sarosh

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 Lynch Foundation:
David lynch is well known for his work as a film director.  He also runs an educational foundation dedicated to promoting transcendental meditation.


"It is wonderful that more and more people are comfortable with the idea of meditation and that they are reaching out to create events like the one on november 28th. David has never missed a day of meditation since he began more than 35 years ago so he will certainly be meditating with you on that day.
David thanks everyone at just this day for all that you do to make the world a better place for us all."

Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder and Director of The Kids Company:

As part of a series of talks at St Pauls on Childhood: Growing Up in the 20th Century, Camila spoke about the need for stillness in all of our lives. She said:

'Give up the prison and get enriched by connecting with one another in a limitless space.'

Swami Swaroopananda, Regional Head Chinmaya Mission UK, Africa, Australia, Far East

"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."

Read the whole text from Swami Swaroopananda here. 

David Boddy
Chairman of the Lucca Leadership Trust

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.

Paddy Lane, Retreats Association:

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. www.retreats.org.uk 

Gaia, Germany: www.gaia-satsang.com

"Silence is all there is and its wonderful to have the focus and attention on the ever present silence - the source of your being. Nothing else is important, silence is all we desire for. When silence is our direct experience every desire disolved. Its very presious to experience the field where many people are aware of silence. Its a gift to me to be in all your presence...

Laurence Freeman OSB:
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.

Geshe Tashi Tsering
Jamyang Buddhist Centre

We at the Jamyang Buddhist Centre will be very happy to participate in this event. Becoming still is a fundamental precursor to developing a deep sense of equanimity, love and compassion towards all our fellow beings. 

 

William Whiting
School of Meditation

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.

 

Donald Lambie
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."

The Study Society

Stillness is the unchanging point from which everything begins and to which everything returns.
"Just This Day" is an opportunity for all of us to join others and come together in this stillness; to connect with each other and remember that we are united, able to see beyond the changing forms to the underlying spirit which is in every one of us.

 St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace:

Silence has the power to unite us beyond all differences and divisions and bring Peace and Healing. Just This Day is a world wide initiative aiming to bring people of all religions and none together in stillness across the globe. As part of this happening the tent will be open from 11am until 3pm for anybody who wishes to take part. Come and help create a global wave of stillness.  

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."
Swami Sivananda 

St James Schools

This initiative expresses a simple and benevolent wish to enhance universal well-being. "Just This Day" is unusual because it calls for collective inaction, recognising the great potential of stillness to open the gateway of the heart and release the force of love to unite and heal. We welcome the invitation to participate in "Just This Day" in order to support a growing yearning across the world to become acquainted with peace.

Dr. Ahmad Al Dubayan, Director General Islamic Cultural Centre and London Central Mosque

"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"  

Pam Evans
Peace Mala

What a wonderful idea. Be assured that everyone involved with Peace Mala supports this day of stillness and peace. We shall pass the word!

SILENCE IN THE CITY:

Silence in the City  fully endorses the initiative of "justthisday". We welcome your call to 'stop and and be still'. Silence is the opening to a greater reality.
To find out more about or current series of talks on Contemplative Life see our website: silenceinthecity.org.uk

Gangaji

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 Work of Byron Katie:

The work of byron katie is a transformative process of inquiry that helps people around the world approach their problems from a perspective of clarity and inner peace.

"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." –Byron Katie

Sister Jayanti
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University

At a time when the world is rushing headlong into an uncertain future, it is vital to pause and become aware of where we are going. How can I contribute to a better future for humanity? Can I really make a difference? The Brahma Kumaris launched just-a-minute last September, a project inviting people to introduce regular one-minute periods of silence into their daily lives. Just This Day is an invitation for us all to pause together. In that pause we do two things; we look inwards to our inner selves and experience our inherent nature of peace and outwards to humanity"s common destiny. And we discover the connection between the two. When people everywhere create one feeling and one vibration of peace and compassion we will heal our divisions and truly become one human family. The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is pleased to support Just This Day."

Ruth White Yoga Centre

Roland John and Ruth White will join with you in meditation and are inviting their yoga school to participate in Just One Day. The students will particpate as we join together in love and harmony with all people everywhere."

Richard Ritsudo Morrissey, zen buddhist priest:

Just this day, and every day,
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.

 

Anthony Strano
Representative for Brahma Kumaris in 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. "

 

Mr Anthony Renshaw
School of Practical Philosophy - Sydney

Your initiative is delightful and unifying and quite, quite simple. Therein lies its inspiration and its beauty. On behalf of the School here in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, I would like to make our school buildings available for meditation during the day and evening of November 28th. We have buildings available in Sydney (one in the city, and another- our major centre- in Wahroonga), Wagga Wagga (a large provinvial vity in the South-West), Newcastle ( a large city in the North) and perhaps in Canberra."

 

Guillermo Berardone
Escuela de Filosofía Práctica - Buenos Aires

Thank you for the invitation.
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 28th November.

Tanya Russell
Founder and Principal of The Art Academy:

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."

Brandon Bays

The Journey

Deep inside a huge potential beckons, waiting to open you to the infinite wisdom, freedom and love within. This presence lies in the heart of stillness. It is calling you home right now, longing to set you free. So stop, be still - for Just One Day."

Satish Kumar: Founder of Schumacher College
Editor of Resurgence Magazine

Thank you for writing to me about Just this day. I think it is a very good initiative. I will observe a day of quiet and I will spread the word.

Venerable Lama Karma Samten: Resident Teacher at Karma Choeling Buddhist Monastery, New Zealand

 English is my second language so I am not sure what the word still means. If it means something within the mind, the mind is not really still, thoughts shoot in the ten directions. However, if we are talking about PEACE it is a wonderful thing and we all need it. I want to share my poem with you: 

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. 

Peter Reddell: 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 28th of November. 

Connie Dietzschold,                                                        Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, Sydney:

There will be a special program from 6 - 8, with a talk about the importance of taking the responsibility for the self and therefore the world, which will be followed by silent meditation, creating peaceful and loveful thoughts for all people on our planet, to help create a world without prejudice and exclusion, a world that can accept and respect the differences in each and everyone. 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'.

Gai Kroczek, School of Philsosophy, Perth, Western Australia:

We wish to advise that the school of philosophy in perth western australia will open its doors to the general public and school members for a day of meditation and stillness on november 28th 2007, in support of the 'justthisday' event. We hope to follow a similar timetable to that at st martins. We feel previleged to be able to participate in this worldwide initiative and have full confidence that it will indeed make a difference.

www.philosophywa.com.au/justthisday.php

Ellen Price, Assistant director, Office of communications, U.S. National Baha'i Centre

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.

Lama Zangmo,  Resident Lama at Kagyu Samye Dzong Centre, London:

To find out more Click Here. 

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.

Vivienne Woolston: Thursday's Child Founder and Coordinator

As Founder of Thursday's Child i know only too well how profound it is to listen to the voice deep inside inspiring us all to do something in the name of peace - we can only listen when we are quiet and still - i congratulate you on taking your idea to fruition and shall be with you
every best wish Vivienne Woolston 

See website for more details on Thursday's Child 

Isira: Living Awareness:www.isira.com

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.