This book is a must-read for anyone who takes their Quaker commitments seriously. I loved the weaving of the deep insights into how we do relate to the planet, to each other both historically and in the present, and how we must create a new relationship for the future. Pamela offers in loving examples from her own life, a kind of memoir approach to writing about this very challenging topic, a do as I also struggle to do rather than this is what you must do. Her style is a literary ‘easy listening’ on difficult topics, whilst gently encouraging us all to do better, to dig deeper and to change how we relate to everything, for the future. As a Buddhist Quaker myself, I am always delighted to find examples of where these two wonderful spiritual traditions come together. Right relationship is part of the noble eightfold pathway and reverence for life is one of the commitments one makes to living mindfully. What do we need to live a truly contented life? How can we adjust to live simply and with consideration of the costs of everything we do elsewhere? These are difficult questions we are faced with, but this book helps us to get our heads around them and find our own responses. I am so glad to have read this quick guide, for such a small book it packs a decent weight. ~ Sylvia Clare

In a most remarkably impassioned book that not only deepens ones awareness of how they live their lives, but at the same time expertly aids in increasing ones confidence, sense of power and choice, and ultimately their very own love for themselves and others, Quaker Quicks - The Promise of Right Relationship by author Pamela Haines is a calming voice in a sea of vocal turbulence. ~ Exclusive Magazine, FULL REVIEW - https://annecarlini.com/ex_books.php?id=608

Within the Judeo-Christian-Humanist tradition, Quakerism has uniquely centered the ethics of right relationship. Combined with the ethics of reverence for life, it lifts the veil on a flowering landscape of readaptation in which a social economy of adequate access to the means of life under the governance of “no more than needed” provides a bountiful and satisfying way of life. I am delighted to see Pamela Haines take up this theme in such a fresh and wide-ranging collection of essays. I commend them to the attention of all. ~ Keith Helmuth, author of Tracking Down Ecological Guidance

I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t find this remarkable book helpful: deepening their awareness of how they live their lives, increasing their confidence, sense of power and choice, and love for themselves and others. Pamela Haines’ voice is calm and reassuring, with a gentle humor. I noticed more light in the room where I was reading. ~ George Lakey, educator, author of Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice