Following on from her first post about learning in the stillness, Ruth Tod shares her thoughts on the Quaker testimony of sustainability and how our urge to expand leads to exploitation and domination.

Lucy Faulkner-Gawlinski shares how she has developed a habit of sitting in Quaker meeting with the Lord’s Prayer, that was ‘drilled into her’ at school, and how she has adapted it to provide meaning and guidance.

Ruth Tod expands on her post on coming to stillness to share how a Quaker meeting is a learning experience where we find guidance and insight.

Ruth Tod shares her experience of Quaker meeting and describes the approaches she uses to from daily life into the collective stillness.

Mike Price shares his experience of Quaker Meeting for Worship and how he finds spiritual experience in the silence, stillness and ministry.

Angela Arnold reflects on how stillness is not the same as silence, and how we might access that place of inner tranquility that exists within us all.

Many Quakers use the term “centering down” to describe how they calm the mind in a Quaker meeting. The approach is different for each individual. Sharon L Shelley shares her process for finding stillness.