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		<title>Making meetings simpler</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[British Friend Helen Drewery writes about what might be a universal desire to make Quaker organizational life simpler How can we achieve a flexible simplicity – living by the essence of the Quaker approach but not treating old habits as sacrosanct? Early Quakers saw simplicity as stripping out of their lives the superfluous activities and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>How can we achieve a flexible simplicity – living by the essence of the Quaker approach but not treating old habits as sacrosanct? Early Quakers saw simplicity as stripping out of their lives the superfluous activities and things – John Woolman called them ‘cumber’ – so that they could more fully follow the leadings of the Spirit.</p></blockquote>
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