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Phone: (831) 336-8333

E-mail us at: mail (at) quakercenter.org (substitute an @ sign instead of (at))

Postal address for all mailings and shipments:

250 Main St. #686
Ben Lomond, CA 95005

Get Directions to Quaker Center Our center is located at 1000 Hubbard Gulch Road, Ben Lomond, CA  95005.

Map of the Quaker Center

Trails and Amenities

WEDNESDAY MORNING WORSHIP SHARING 10 a.m. (PT)

Join Friends from around the world as we respond to queries based on short readings.  JOIN HERE

For password, Email BobFisher@QuakerCenter.org

This week’s readings and queries are from Walden by Henry David Thoreau

(See Quaker Quotes and Queries below)

SPRING IS ON ITS WAY

Spring is on its way.

NEWS from QUAKER CENTER August/ September 2020

ARE YOU WILLING & ABLE TO HELP?
At this moment in time, we are holding our heads above water, financially, despite losing about $15,000 per month of budgeted income. We started out with some healthy reserves, we’ve cut back on expenditures and Friends have been exceedingly generous in offering financial support. But, as the pandemic shows no sign of going away, and as we struggle, nationally and globally, with denial and a lack of informed leadership, we are nearly certain to approach the limits of our ability to stay afloat and to chart the course. Please help, as you are able:

http://www.quakercenter.org/gifts-and-donations/

If you prefer to send a check, please send to:

Quaker Center                                                                        Box 686                                                                                    Ben Lomond, CA 95005

GOING ONLINE!

Along with our DAILY Worship and our WEEKLY Worship Sharing, it appears that, for the foreseeable future, our MONTHLY Quaker programs will be presented online.

QUAKER QUOTES AND QUERIES

February 14, 2021

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. . .

QUERIES:  What does living “deliberately” mean to you? What are the “essential facts”? Have you ever “Practiced resignation?” In what ways is Thoreau’s stated approach to life similar to that of Fox or Fell or Woolman or you? How is it different?

[archive of QC’s Quaker Quotes]

SPIRIT RISING

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PHOTO BY LEN VAUGHN-LAHMAN SJ MERCURY NEWS SEPT 20 2004 (w/ LABYRINTH REvans) Nestled in the woods away from the Quaker Conference Center in the mountains outside of Ben Lomond, a newly consturcted labyrinth, made of simple gravel and river rock, opens in a clearing. The brainstorm of Tom Davis (background, right) , a member of the group, his permamnent creation replaces on made of rop. The labyrinth allows prayerful meditation around a predestined course, with one way in and out. Members Traci and Walter Hjelt Sullivan (cq\'d, no hyphen in last name) are on the labyrinth with Davis.
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The Casa de Luz
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Orchard Lodge
The Haven exterior
The Labyrinth
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Sojourner’s Cottage

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