Responding to Ecological Crisis - Quaker Spiritual Insights

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PART 1OpeningsThe promptings of love and truth“Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truthin your hearts. Trust them as the leadings of God whose Lightshows us our darkness and brings us to new life.”Quaker faith & practice 1.02, 1Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
Quakers have found that there is a source of guidance and transformation within allpeople that, if we pay attention to it, can make us aware of our flaws and limitations,and bring us into a new life of peace and justice. This Inward Teacher can show usthe order, beauty and harmony of creation, and our place within the complex webof life. It can also reveal the influence of a false spirit of greed, selfishness, cruelty,violence and destruction that leads to injustice and disrupts the order, beauty andharmony of creation.Ecological ReflectionThe spiritual experiences and insights of the earliest Friends convinced them thatthey were being brought back into a harmonious relationship with the whole ofcreation. They felt that its true beauty and order were being revealed to them, andthat it was possible to live in right relationship with the rest of the natural world. Weaffirm that, when we are willing to pay attention to the guidance of the Spirit, suchinsights and wisdom remain available to us today.QueryAre you willing to be truly open to the guidance of your Inward Teacher,even when this disturbs and discomforts you by revealing your flaws andlimitations, and your dependence on a false spirit of greed, selfishness,cruelty, violence and destruction? Where are the promptings of love and truthin your heart leading you in this time?Responding to Ecological Crisis | Quaker spiritual insights 2
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