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Metaphorin Quaker Language
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Part A
What is metaphor?
What role does it play in spiritual life?
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Part B – A look at Light
What Friends have to say
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Part C
Enriching our metaphorical vocabulary
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metaphor - a figure of speech in which a word or phrase denoting one kind of object or action is used in place of another to suggest likeness or analogy between them
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… or, more simply, an implied comparison.
= GOD
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What does metaphor do for us?
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Expands our frame of reference beyond words into symbols
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“Simplicity clears the springs of life and permits wholesome mirth and gladness to bubble up; it clears the windows of life and lets joy radiate”
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1955
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Symbols help us to
make the general personal
connect to the divine
explain the unexplainable
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and sometimes they are just pretty
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Symbols have emotional power
They expand our perception of reality
They may allow people with different understandings to find points of contact
They are fluid enough to evolve over time
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“The ideas of God and man which have been held in the past must be re-expressed in the light of our own experience and further knowledge”
London Yearly Meeting 1920
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A continuous search for
truthand the means of
expressing it