Increase in yearning: Angela Greenwood feels free to explore

‘This is both a lack and an opportunity.’

by Angela Greenwood 6th March 2026

I imagine I was not alone in appreciating Jan Shimmins’s Thought for the Week (13 February). I too have found group mystical practices to be powerful, both in gathered Meetings for Worship, and in our Experiment with Light practice. My experience of such group practices, however, also includes deep openings and wisdom from within a number of non-Quaker settings, like the weekly half-hour silent meditation (opening with the recitation of ‘Be Still and Know that I am God’) in the church near me, and in various other forms of Christian, Buddhist and Sufi silent meditation practices.