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Rowan Williams on Attentive Stillness - Anglican (Psalm 46:10)

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"Stillness is not emptiness but attention. 'Be still and know'—attend to reality, to God's presence woven through all things. In contemplative stillness, we see what busyness blinds us to: God present, God acting, God speaking. Knowing comes through attentive stillness." — Rowan Williams. Anglican: attentive stillness.

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Psalm 46:10

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