Part 1 of Kristen's slideshow

1. Metaphor
in Quaker Language

2. Part A
 What is metaphor?
 What role does it play in spiritual life?

3. Part B – A look at Light
What Friends
have to say

4. Part C
Enriching our
metaphorical vocabulary

5. 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

6. … or, more simply, an implied comparison.
= GOD

7. What does metaphor do for us?

8. Expands our frame of reference
beyond words into symbols

9. “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”
PhiladelphiaYearly
Meeting 1955

10. Symbols help us to
 make the general personal
 connect to the divine
 explain the unexplainable

11. and sometimes
they are just pretty

12. 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

13. “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

14. A continuous
search for truth
and the means of expressing it