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Hope Deferred Makes the Heart ❤Grow Sick but A Desire Fulfilled is a Tree of Life 🌳

Lovely to see so many people willingly deceive themselves.

I found it hard to hear what the people were saying because of the background noise. It would have been useful to have subtitles.

It's very vague, isn't it?! I'm reading Elizabeth Fry's memoirs and I find her words a lot clearer and based in substance than this video.

As I learn more about the original Quakers, I am finding validation for my own experiences and beliefs, as well as for my work. The core Quaker belief was that God is Love and we can directly connect to Love/Light/God through our own Hearts. And I realize the truth in this, because I've had experiences with it, since going through a grieving/healing process in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since then I have felt that when we release the suppressed pain that blocks our Hearts, we automatically connect more deeply with Love/Light/God. This is why my work has focused on embracing our feelings and healing our Hearts, in order to bring more Love and compassion into our world. Many people have put me down and thought I was crazy. So, I am glad to be able to back up my realization with a stand for people who had also found the same reality many centuries ago - the original Quakers. I feel much less alone now, even though I do not know if any of the Quakers had realized how people can deepen their direct connection to God, through focusing on healing their own Hearts - through focusing on releasing the suppressed emotional pain that blocks Hearts and avoiding feeling numbing pharmaceuticals and other substances that block our Hearts from Love/God. The original authentic Quakers had silent meetings where they meditated. In these meditations some focused on deepening their connection to the Light/God/Love within their own Hearts, and some waited for the connection to happen. Those whose Hearts were not too blocked to make the connection, automatically felt more Love and compassion toward their fellow human beings. Consequently authentic Quakers were often leaders in movements that called for world peace and the abolishment of slavery and many other humanitarian efforts to help poor and suffering people. According to my research the following things are the core of the original Quaker ways. I am surprised by how identical they are to my own beliefs and values... 1. Forming a direct connection to God, through our own Hearts, and following God/Love, instead of only blindly following human leaders. This is the most important core of real Quakerism. And its something ALL people can do. Some people's Hearts are open enough to do it easily. And some people, like myself, have to go through a grieving/healing process, in order to deepen our connect to God/Love/Light. At this point in time, it appears that humanity has been so wounded that a lot of healing has to take place in most people, in order to connect to the levels of Love and Light that are needed in our world. The following Quaker values are all things that people automatically feel strongly about after we have a deep connection to the Love/Light/God in our own Hearts... A. Equality; Authentic Quakers felt that All people are equal. They saw no difference between the rights of Native Americans vs new settlers, between men vs women, between poor people vs rich people, between "black" people vs "white" people, between Christians vs Jews or Buddhists or Quakers...etc. B. There is Good in ALL people; Authentic Quakers saw the good in all people. They believed that ALL people were God's children and that even the worse criminal types could heal and choose better ways. C. Peace on Earth; Authentic Quakers were anti-war. They believed in using only positive, peaceful and non-violent ways to resolve problems. The authentic Quakers refuse to fight and kill, in the wars. Some people viewed this as them being weak or cowardly, but they were just being more kind and compassionate. D. Freedom for ALL Human Beings; Authentic Quakers were against slavery and believed that all human beings should be free to live their lives the way they choose to. This includes freedom of religion. E. Living a Simple and Humble Lifestyle; Authentic Quakers lived a simple lifestyle. This was reflected in their original clothing, which the Amish copied after the Quakers invited them into Pennsylvania. Interestingly, the Quakers stopped wearing that type of simple clothing after the Amish copied them. In a way, the Amish replaced the Quakers in Pennsylvania and other places, but they are complete opposites in the most important spiritual and humanitarian issues. F. Social Reform; Authentic Quakers cared enough about humanity to want to help make things better for ALL people. Consequently they often participated in things like better treatment of the Native Americans, and the abolishment of slavery and protests against violent wars and getting laws passed to give women the right to vote...etc. G. Humanitarian Aid; Authentic Quakers did what they could to help the poor and suffering people. H. Love thy Enemy; Authentic Quakers did not seek vengeance. They treated their enemies with compassion. And this list could go on. The original authentic Quakers had more Love/Light/God in their Hearts and so were genuine humanitarians. There are many people throughout the world, who are not Quakers, and who exist both inside and outside many different religions and cultures, who also have deep direct connections to God/Love/Light in their own Hearts. Most just do not realize it or do not view it as a connection to "God." They are the people whose Hearts have not been too blocked to feel deep levels of Love. They too are authentically compassionate and humanitarian types of people. People can have a deep connection to Love/God/Light without ever even believing in God or Jesus and without ever following any religion. I have deeply felt this truth, to the core of my own heart and soul, since the early 1990s. People who have open Hearts automatically care about people and want peace and freedom and feel Love for ALL people. Its actually not just a Quaker trait, its a natural human trait that exists in everyone whose Heart is open enough. God is Love and we can ALL feel that Love through our own Hearts. I view the original authentic Quakers as people who had found and honored, the most important part of the natural spirituality that ALL human beings are born with - the Heart - the Love - the Light - the God that exists within us all. And they aimed to show the rest of humanity this natural human capability, which is why they were targeted.

Peaceful demonstrations . Gandi style protests work !

Sadly this is not really what i am observing with too many Quakers today, with regards to politics, political agendas & polices, .. with regards to this Luciferian globaal 'SMART'🌈 'woke' 🏳‍⚧technocratic, cenorship, .. agenda There is a lot of dishonesty in 'Science', the media & academia, .. around climate change, CO2 & so-called vaccines & viruses, .. Also in the 'United' Kingdom, .. we the lawful people/Jurists have a Constitution that is based on natural unalienable sovereign Common Law principles, rights & freedoms, .. I don't know any Quakers that are standing behind these Constitutional principles, especially those within the 2001 lawfully invoked Clause/Article61 of the original, perpetual & Constitutional MagnaCharta1215.

Decided about 10 days ago that Quakerism is for me,i have read all of the leaflets &book sent to me.Looking forward to attending my first meeting.

Looking forward to being part of the BYM Pastoral Care team this year.

This is a positive step to understanding what real belief is.

This is a video which points the way for me. Thanks for putting this on.

I am convinced that Friendly ways are the way of the future. Especially now that we can be hyperconnected via the wonders of the internet. IMHO, it's either do business like a Quaker, or use violence. The former takes patience, perseverance, benevolence, empathy, grace, humanity, kindness, mercy, sympathy, tenderness, charity, clemency, consideration, heart, humaneness, softness, tenderheartedness, yearning and compassion. The latter is far easier.... in the short term. The former is far more rewarding. In the short term, and into eternity.

This is for me , meaningful common sense view to the way things should be.

The dark night and you hold fast. Dawn comes, is here. Celebrate!

Looks like a good gathering

Appreciating everyone involved that day.

Support from this friend in America.

With you in spirit

No one is owed reparations.

Super interesting and informative thank you 🙂

Lovely video.

Based as fuck.

This is a wonderful video.

There's a good group over in Illinois at Carbondale. Had to think a minute where SIU is

Ok. I doubt I'll be there anytime soon

I'm interested in Quakerism, but I live in Brazil and here there is no type of representation, neither physical nor virtual, could you give me some link so I can access the meetings online?

Its like western buddhism...

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I'm interested in Quakerism but I'm not a pacifist. Please could you recommend some sources which explain why Quakers are pacifists. Thanks

people of moral conviction can not keep supporting either the current government, or a government under kier Starmer. Quakers now must stand firmly to prevent both from continuing exploitation, greed, war and destruction, just as Quakers did 300 years ago.

It is so wonderful!!!! I hope we can all make positive changes.

Quakers and Hindus. Quakers and Budhists. Quakers and Christians. Quakers and Muslums ? Jews ?

Looks like Buddhist meditation

Very optimistic ! Now let's throw human nature in there to "intersect" with the rest.

Your contributions towards social justice work have been immense, and we thank QPSW for the continued support. We miss you Steve!

I truly appreciate QPSW for considering to support TTT work in East Africa. It has been a good and learning experience

She’s so cute

Inspired!

For me finding God is the purpose of being alive. There is so much noise in this world. The way Quakers search for peace they end up finding God

What people don't realise is that climate change affects nearly everything that matters to people from: migration, flooding here and abroad, food security, the cost of food, the cost of fuel to mention just a few. It's easy to dismiss climate change as "woke nonsense." But presenting an economic case for combatting it, may be the way forward.

Thank you, super clear and informative

My school.

War is to enrich the arms manufacturers. Soldiers are the expendable pawns, look at the state the UK is in after fighting 2 World wars and numerous other conflicts. bankrupt

Beat despair by not listening to the doomsters, they are wrong. Clean the real mess we are making of the planet with our garbage, chemical, sewage and dumped plastics, THESE are the things to sort out. The climate looks after itself.

Or Gwenno Art rock in Cornish

They sound like a peaceful sect

I love the freedom in this! So cool!

I was finally able to listen in full to this #SalterLecture tonight. I am confident that through the lens of what I have come to know as #ShedCommunity, that the love and respect can thrive to unite the power of positive human interaction & connection to work together with firm foundations! All possible things can stem from such Shed Communities around the world. These communities already exist accross the globe and yet, rather like the world full of many Quaker thinkers, they dont yet know that a 'name' they may never associace with altrady binds them together. Quakers, for the most part I believe, already manifest that which is true shed community! I will discern and develop further. Much of the work is done and 'knowing' that such commonality and shared vision already exists, very much deals with the 'polarisational' issues raised here! It is time to use wedges, all to often designed to separate us, to now join our many complex sections to establish a mighty barn on the firmest of foundations. Watch this space ❤

My best guess is that more often than not the worshipers will indeed connect to something. If one opens himself to and invites a connection to “whatever”, I have no doubt that something will connect. Especially if one insists acting as if the Way and the Truth haven’t been discovered to us and we must keep looking see what’s out there wishing to have access to our good souls and minds.