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Inner light

The Quaker teaching that the light of Christ is present in every person and can be met in silent worship.

Also: Inward Light, Quaker

Christian mysticism

George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends in seventeenth-century England, taught that there is that of God in everyone, an inward light that teaches directly. Quaker meeting waits in silence for the light, and anyone may speak when moved. The idea resonates with mystical teachings of the inner presence.