Editorial

In the last issue we complained that we lacked articles on how to nourish our spiritual life.  So this time we are grateful to Wilma Davidson for sending us an article about going on retreat, stressing the need to be rather than to do.  Also to Lyn Dundas who writes...

How we nourish our Spiritual lives: Contemplative practice

Wilma Davidson, Canberra Regional Meeting To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender oneself to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence....
Being Nurtured by the Landscape, Supported by the Community

Being Nurtured by the Landscape, Supported by the Community

Susan Clarke, Queensland Regional Meeting This past year I have lived at Silver Wattle Quaker Centre, volunteering as cook for our small permanent community of four, the Friends in Residence, Elders, course facilitators, participants in courses, and guests for the...

Mandala

  While on a week-long silent retreat, I gradually opened myself to possibilities. One morning I woke with the feeling that I would make a mandala. While I created it with a sense of purpose, I did not know what the outcome would be. As I worked towards the...