{"query": "The Stillness Is the Instruction", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_c_ca88e5d3f673", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens ↔ The Stillness Is the Instruction", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "It is not an end in itself, not a technique for managing stress. It is the posture that makes a particular kind of knowing possible.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"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. 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He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book, and especially to the scriptures and his catechism, to attend to the "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_10_17", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:17", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 10:17 — See here, 1. That those are in the right that do not only receive instruction, but retain it, that do not let it slip through carelessness, as most do, nor let it go to those that "}, {"id": "card_src_word_complex_instruction_set_computer", "title": "complex instruction set computer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "complex instruction set computer: (noun) (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip — syn: complex instruction set computin"}, {"id": "card_src_word_complex_instruction_set_computing", "title": "complex instruction set computing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "complex instruction set computing: (noun) (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip — syn: complex instruction set compute"}, {"id": "card_c_4cd8e3f6c927", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens ↔ What the Quiet Reveals", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The stillness is not passive resignation; it is active clearing — removing your own voice long enough to hear one that was speaking all along.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_corinthians_14_21", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 14:21", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Corinthians 14:21 — In this passage the apostle pursues the argument, and reasons from other topics; as,\nI. Tongues, as the Corinthians used them, were rather a token of judgment from God than me"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_24_15", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:15", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 24:15 — This is spoken, not so much by way of counsel to wicked men (they will not receive instruction, Pro 23:9), but rather in defiance of them, for the encouragement of good people that"}, {"id": "card_n_74dba7c005f7", "title": "The Direction Changes Everything", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\" — John 21:6\n\nThe disciples had fished through the entire night and caught nothing. Their arms were tired. Their method was sound. Their"}, {"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_src_comm_psalms_74_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 74:1 — This psalm is entitled Maschil - a psalm to give instruction, for it was penned in a day of affliction, which is intended for instruction; and this instruction in general it gives us,"}]}