Seeking Union with Spirit: Experiences of spiritual journeys

by Fiona Gardner

Other authorsDrew Lawson (Cover artist)
Paperback, 2020

Status

Available

Call number

CB 2020 GAR c2

Publication

Carlingforth NSW: Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, 2020.

ISBN

9781922332233

Description

"For over twenty years, Fiona has participated in facilitating the Meeting for Learning (a year-long program for spiritual nurture, designed to explore Spirit and Quaker ways), and lives with her partner in a small intentional community that has been a place of spiritual nurture and learning. She has worked as a social worker for many years and now as a university teacher, particularly in fostering critical reflection and spirituality for social workers and critical spirituality for pastoral care workers. A continuing challenge in her spiritual life has been how to integrate her spiritual being in all of these aspects of her life.In the 2010 Lecture, Fiona asks Why seek to live life in union with Spirit? Such a life, in my experience and that of many others, is a fuller, richer, meaning filled and deeper life, connected to that which is eternal. It means moving from what is often called the divided life, beyond opposing forces to a place of wholeness, to integrating all of who we are in all that we do. To do this means holding together these opposites."… (more)

Call number

CB 2020 GAR c2

Barcode

6105
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