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This spirituality section overlaps with sections on poetry, prose and counselling.
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I have more than one reason to feel uncomfortable placing this material online. In particular, I am no-one special.
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Testimony,
this document threads a thematic sequence through many of the documents below.
Any Volunteers? by Brian Patten
Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann
The Flood, an extract from the Biblical Book of Genesis
For everything its season, an extract from the Biblical Ecclesiastes
Go to the ant, an extract from the Biblical Book of Proverbs
God’s unfathomable wisdom, an extract from the Biblical Book of Job
If it were done when ‘tis done, an extract from Macbeth by William Shakespeare
In the beginning, an extract from the Biblical Book of Genesis
Interruption at the Opera House, by Brian Patten
Ithaca, by Constantine Cavafy
Love, an extract from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Love is patient, love is kind, an extract from 1 Corinthians
Quaker Advices, an extract
Quaker Foundations of a True Social Order
Quaker Peace Testimony, declaration to Charles Stuart II, 1661
Pied Beauty, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Prosepoem Towards a Definition of Itself, by Brian Patten
A Supplication, by Inazo Nitobe
Spring and Fall, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Stop all the clocks, by W.H. Auden
Tao teh Ching, an extract
There is a tide in the affairs of men, an extract from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Velveteen Rabbit, an extract, by Margery Williams
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