Quakers In Australia: Meeting For Worship

Quakers have never had a creed that sets out what to believe. We are each different, our different life experiences and spiritual experiences mean that belief (our understanding of how the world works) is different and needs to evolve with us.
Meetings for Worship require no more than two people to be present, though, preferably and usually, there will be several more. Perhaps the most obvious features of a Quaker gathering are, usually, the plainness of the room; the absence of any human leadership; and the periods of silence, sometimes quite lengthy. Friends seek a living peace in which to find true fellowship and to give thanks. Such a stilling of the mind is called ‘centering down’.