Pain barrier: Margaret Cook responds to an anonymous Friend

‘We were all astonished at her sense of not belonging.’

by Margaret Cook 5th February 2021

Like the Friend who wrote ‘Fighting talk’ (22 January) I’m sure we all have experiences of our Meetings being divided. We would not be a normal group of people if this didn’t happen.  But I think we can approach any difficulty in a way that hinges on what our Friend was intimating in the article, namely our attempts to understand the workings and experience of our inner selves (and, implicitly, to take responsibility for them).