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stillness

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  • n  (poetic) tranquil silence
  • n  calmness without winds
  • n  a state of no motion or movement

  • It was the stillness that worried firefighters most.
  • As a single shot shattered the stillness of Bangkok's Borompimarn Palace on a steamy June morning in 1946, the land some still called Siam changed forever.
  • INDOCHINA A deep stillness lay across the wasteland of Dienbienphu.
News & Articles

  • Community Calendar June 16
    * June 17 - Monday Morning Make-it at the Museum, 10-11:30 a.m., Log Cabin Living: Build your own cabin. * June 17 - Conway Community Meditation, 12:30 p.m., Faulkner County Library, "Relaxing into stillness." Pamela Mosley, 450-9097.
    June 15, 2013 - The Log Cabin Democrat
Quotes

  • Rosie O Donnell in MLive.com
    O'Donnell told "Entertainment Tonight" that she sensed "a soulful kind of stillness" in Johnson.
  • Yann Martel in CTV.ca
    If you give yourself the time, the moment of stillness, to open yourself to a good book, it will change you,Martel says. "Your perception of life will be changed: it will be more subtle, more open, more forgiving, more loving, more...
  • John Sentamu in Virtue Online
    Dr Sentamu said: "I wanted to encourage our nation's elected representatives to slow down during their holiday and in that place of quiet and stillness to enter into the presence of God. One of these books is about creating that quiet in our lives....

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