Breakfast at the Victory … The ego is the dualist in us. It is the habit we have of seeing ourselves over and against someone else. As ego, my inwardness remains inward because it is completely closed off to you by my outwardness… … In fact, belief and unbelief are…
Recently Katie Kent added a comment to the discussion following last July’s Intellect post. She wrote: I have just come to realize why i define myself as a quaker: it is a spiritual discipline and practice, rather than a set of beliefs. … To me, “Rising…
Friends have a healthy wariness of calendars, and particularly of names or ceremonies assigned to particular days in a calendar. Human beings by nature ascribe meaning—sometimes sacred meaning—to patterns of events and objects. Such naming is of biological…
Because my Meeting worships in the staff lounge of a large urban cemetery, we occasionally have intrusions from non-Quakers who break the silence with well-meant yet disruptive questions. Recently, three interruptions in a row had me first chuckling and then quaking with the…
Note: The following is based on a post I published on The Empty Path in 2010. Chris Hedges is a cultural critic, author and former foreign correspondent who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. He published I Don’t Believe in Atheists in…
Many Friends share mutual bemusement over what they call The Question, namely: “What do Quakers believe?” … In his “Among Friends” column for the January 2012 issue of Friends Journal , Gabriel Ehri describes how he learned not to preface her…
I had an opening early this morning, the sort of opening which I experience as remembering something I already knew. Intellect brings human beings to the doorway of awareness and leaves them there. I suppose my brain was riffing on another saying I don’t remember clearly…
Pradip with Anthony Manousos at the World Conference of Friends in Kenya During the World Conference of Friends many Friends were deeply impressed with Pradip Kumar Lamichhane, keynote speaker for Asia West Pacific region. A 35-year-old self-styled “IT guy” who…
Zablon Isaac Malenge, one of the leading theologians of Kenya and former General Secretary of Nairobi Yearly Meeting, had a remarkable take on missionaries and the universal basis of Quakerism: “I will tell you a mystery. Many people in this world are practicing Quakerism…
In March, Mike Shell wrote of learning to listen and be understood amid diverse spiritual paths and language in “Listening in Tongues”. At www.quakerquaker.org, Paula Deming raises her quandry of talking about God in her Meeting, in her post “Why does my faith…
