Call number
2d
Publication
Pendle Hill Publications (2017)
Description
This essay explores the spiritual basis of Friends’ testimony of simplicity: how it evolved from the efforts of early Friends to live in a way that fostered the spiritual richness of their lives, and how it continues to speak today in the lives of those who seek to find not merely balance, but an unseamed wholeness of their inward and outward journeys.
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LibraryThing member kaulsu
Originally published in 1987, Taber updated the pamphlet in some small respects. It continues to speak to Friends' condition, as Quakers strive to live in the world in such a way as to take away the occasion for war. Quoting John Woolman and Thomas Kelly among others, we are called to find a way to
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LibraryThing member QuakerReviews
This is a lovely wise pamphlet on the relationship between spiritual life and outward life. Simplicity is the result of our faithfulness, based on the realization that for the inward life to continue to grow, the outward life must respond to it, and that spiritual knowledge comes from an open
She quotes Quakers from the 17th to the 20th centuries who wrote of their experience of the mutuality of spiritual growth and simple living. She also cites the extension of concern to the entire environment in our contemporary understanding of the implications of simplicity.
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relationship between the two. She quotes Quakers from the 17th to the 20th centuries who wrote of their experience of the mutuality of spiritual growth and simple living. She also cites the extension of concern to the entire environment in our contemporary understanding of the implications of simplicity.
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ISBN
9780875745572
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