William Taber, from Four Doors to Meeting for Worship

“Another kind of new perception in the Light is that a person may be led to explore old memories in a dramatically new way, seeing the protecting, guiding hand of God in what seemed an unconnected chain of circumstances, disappointments, disasters, relationships, and small successes. In a similar way, this special state of consciousness sometimes opens up a whole new understanding of cause and effect, or, we might say, it develops and reinforces a whole new range of spiritual common sense. The cumulative effect of these new perceptions is to bring a profound but subtle change in the way we relate to ourselves, to other people, animals, and all created things. Thus, the ultimate test of our response to the Inward Work of Christ lies not in the way we feel during the meeting for worship, but in the way we relate afterward to our fellow humans and to all things in God’s Creation.”