'Am I willing to go to my own inner room and be vulnerable enough to receive?' Photo: by Gabriel Porras on Unsplash

‘It is the experience itself, often boring and undramatic, which transforms us.’

Centre staged: Dana Smith has words of prayer

‘It is the experience itself, often boring and undramatic, which transforms us.’

by Dana Smith 5th January 2024

Sitting at the dinner table of a Buddhist sangha last year, I was not entirely surprised to be surrounded by folks who had once been Quakers. They spoke of the golden thread that runs through all meditative practice; perhaps it runs through all seeking.