"People speak of Quaker silence, of silent meetings, but we make a mistake, I think, if we talk too long or too often about our lack of noise. The right holding of meeting for worship encourages stillness out of the silence, and it is Quaker stillness that can engender radical change.
But there are more elements to Quakerism than the meeting for worship – this isn’t one-day-a-week religion. Quakers believe – all of us – that the whole of life is sacramental. There is no difference between the sacred and the secular. We work for peace, for sustainability, for economic justice. And we accept that our concerns are often profoundly counter-cultural – you can’t seriously believe in truth and equality, you can’t make them the essence of every decision, without upsetting a status quo."
~Geoffrey Durham
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More at http://www.nayler.org/what-it-means-to-be-a-quaker-today/
Artwork John Sloan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_French_Sloan
But there are more elements to Quakerism than the meeting for worship – this isn’t one-day-a-week religion. Quakers believe – all of us – that the whole of life is sacramental. There is no difference between the sacred and the secular. We work for peace, for sustainability, for economic justice. And we accept that our concerns are often profoundly counter-cultural – you can’t seriously believe in truth and equality, you can’t make them the essence of every decision, without upsetting a status quo."
~Geoffrey Durham
More at http://www.nayler.org/what-it-means-to-be-a-quaker-today/
Artwork John Sloan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_French_Sloan
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