2016-11-17 - How To Live Quietly by Annie Payson Call ===================================================== Swan, symbol of discrimination Non-fiction book notes written June 12th, 2015. "PEACE is the health of the spirit. ... It is the faults within ourselves that we are neither facing nor shunning that keep us away from peace." "As gradually we learn that it is our own attitude toward life that makes us suffer, not the circumstances and people in life, we come nearer and nearer to our freedom. ... and the contrast is so great between the habitual and customary bondage to people and circumstances and the healthy habit of working to throw off such bondage, as to give us always a growing sense of relief which is delightful." "We are told that at social dinners in some parts of India silence is not in any way considered to be in bad form; quite the reverse. If the host and his guests think of nothing especial to say, they say nothing, and the silence is neither awkward nor dead, but quite alive with thoughts which are getting in form to be spoken, and with the restful sense which each person at the table has of not being forced to speak until he has something to say." Below is an excerpt from an article about the author. Call's school placed children from varied backgrounds in the same classroom because she believed that diversity could lead to intellectual and social advancement. In her writings one finds simple suggestions for ways in which we can be more tolerant, kind, and understanding in a frenzied world. Her firm tone resonates with astonishing power and her belief in the ease with which we can make a better world is contagious sixty-nine years after her passing. Call's writing is anchored in the phrase, "Nature tends toward health." It was her belief that the natural world wants us to be well even if we do not want it to be well. Call even wrote about breathing and stretching exercises that resemble modern yoga and meditation. Article about Annie Payson Call author: Call, Annie Payson, 1853-1940 detail: LOC: BJ1581 .C23 source: tags: ebook,non-fiction,spirit title: How To Live Quietly Tags ==== ebook non-fiction spirit