Aid memoir: Anne Wade revisits her youth, her training, and a tussle with the Peace Testimony

‘I am not required to provide all the answers.’

by Anne Wade 18th October 2024

I have described previously how I began to learn the Quaker practice of centring down (‘What does it mean to “centre down”’, 21 June). The method allowed me to make peace with my own anger, and then to make peace in my immediate environment. I was exploring how to do this while trying to live an ordinary life, integrating the mundane and the transcendental, chatting normally while maintaining awareness that everything is shot through with something from beyond.