Mind What Stirs in your Heart

by Teresina Havens

Overview

Mind What Stirs in Your Heart helps us touch this deep-flowing source, to enter into its silence and simplicity. There is a dance-like quality in each page in the pamphlet, and psychological space that invites movement. The exercises help us find our own connections, through breathing, walking, waiting rock-bottom ways that undergird a contemplative spirituality. And there is a harmonious beauty which focuses the work in the juxtaposition of the Quaker and Biblical texts.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151492669
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	04/03/2015
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #304
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	126 KB

About the Author

Teresina Rowell Havens was born January 13, 1909, and died February 14, 1992, in the company of her husband Joe Havens in their home in Portland, Oregon. Educated at Smith College, College of International Studies in London, and finally receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Religions from Yale in 1933, she found her vision of heaven on earth at Itto En, a Buddhist-Christian community in Japan dedicated to living in the Light and sharing their resources with little anxiety about failure and death. In her life work, she knew in herself a link between Quakerism and Buddhism, between the “inner” spiritual search and the “outer” work for social justice, between the Sacred and the mundane.

Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s Walking and Breathing meditations, Teresina began to combine Quaker “seedverses” with meditative walking. Teresina discovered a rich mine of movement-language, especially in the pastoral letters of George Fox and Isaac Penington. “Walk in the Light” is only the most familiar of hundreds of advices inviting to literal expression. The opportunity to explore some of these “movings” with Quaker gatherings across the continent in the summer/fall of 1989 provided a working basis for the present pamphlet. The directions are designed primarily for group-movement, but individual readers are also invited to get up and move, discovering new meanings in Quaker writers as they breathe and walk with a far-flung invisible network of spiritual explorers-through-movement.