Feel the Healing Miracle Begin
Breathe in the quiet purpose of this place; / Through outward stillness, seek a calm within. / Here we can find forgiveness and forgive; / Here feel the healing... Read more.
Minor Ecstasies Are Bits of Stardust
bits of star dust which are for all of us, however limited our opportunities. Something seen, something heard, something felt, flashes upon one with a bright f... Read more.
Something Much Older and Deeper Than Quakerism
My experience is that there is a single root of our faith and life as a religious society — a taproot much older and runs much deeper than Quakerism. The tapr... Read more.
Do Not Fear Truth
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage,... Read more.
The Heart of the Quaker Tradition
When George Fox was initially on his spiritual quest to understand the true nature of faith and Christianity, he was living in the midst of full-on Christendom,... Read more.
The Whole of Life is Sacramental
It is a bold and colossal claim that we put forward — that the whole of life is sacramental, that there are innumerable ‘means of grace’ by which God is r... Read more.
Let the Light Search You
Now, Friends, deal plainly with yourselves, and let the eternal Light search you, and try you, for the good of your souls. For this will deal plainly with you. ... Read more.
The Difference Between Happiness and Joy
The real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy c... Read more.
A Letter from the Editor
Although I collected messages for this week without a theme in mind, the topic of peace kept bubbling up, perhaps because the war in Gaza has been on my heart. ... Read more.
We Are Called to Perform Miracles
No one of us is asked to save the world by ourselves. And yet collectively, the Religious Society of Friends is a covenant people charged with building the king... Read more.
Follow After Righteousness
Our principle is, and our practices have always been, to seek peace, and ensue it, and to follow after righteousness and the knowledge of God, seeking the good ... Read more.
Breathe the Spirit of Reconciliation
Guard against placing your dependence on fleets and armies; be peaceable yourselves, in words and actions, and pray to the Father of the Universe that he would ... Read more.
Find Those Things that Move Your Spirit
I think education has a spiritual dimension. There is a way, that if you could find in your inner self those things that move your spirit, that is a major part ... Read more.
The Light to Do Most Good
Were we religious we should know
Our path were not for all to go;
Each has his individual light,
To show what work for him is right.... Read more.
Interrelationship with the Whole Earth Community
We are intimately interdependent, and as we do to other life, we do to ourselves; we are in intimate reciprocal interrelationship with the whole Earth community... Read more.
Quaker Worship and Meditation
Those who are familiar with meditation, often from the popularisation of Buddhist meditation methods, but not with Quaker worship practices, often get the idea ... Read more.
A Perfect Pandemonium of Voices
I began to get still. But I had no sooner commenced than a perfect pandemonium of voices reached my ears, a thousand clamoring notes from without and within, un... Read more.
Drop Thy Still Dews of Quietness
With that deep hush subduing all
Our words and works that drown
The tender whisper of thy call,
As noiseless let thy blessing fall
As fell thy manna down.... Read more.
God’s Attention
The central thrust of Early Quaker preaching was a call to people to know Christ as the Prophet, the one who is to be heard and obeyed, in all things. One of th... Read more.
I Am Stable. I Am Grounded.
I am stable. I am grounded. I feel the earth beneath me. I feel balanced. I can’t be pushed from this place of physical and spiritual grounding easily.... Read more.