Spiritual truth and business method
Volker Heine asks: can the wisdom of the Quaker business method be applied in secular life?
Spiritual truth is not like maths and physics, where we have a universal language precisely defined and understood in the same way around the globe ‘from Tokyo to Timbuktu’.
I respect the efforts of theologians and of the many Quakers quoted in our Book of Discipline to say clearly what they mean, and each is largely successful within its community. But spiritual truths are rather like poetry. They are certainly meaningful, just as music and art are meaningful, but one cannot demand that the poetry of one person has to be the same as the poetry of another.
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