A small band of English Quaker refugees formed the Chichester Meeting of Friends in 1684. Back then they called themselves, Children of the Light. The old stone meeting house they later erected near today's Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, still stands. Quakers taught Western seekers to dwell in the apocalyptic simplicity of the present moment.
Why turn "liberation" into a cosmic mystery, a political utopia, or a distant goal that only happens when we are finally good and dead at the end of lifetimes? Liberation happens at the end of every exhalation, and at the beginning of each new breath. The cosmic mystery is Presence. Today, we are still and always Children of the Light.
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