According to the Quaker method, decisions are reached not by voting nor gathering the majority opinion, but by gathering the"sense of the meeting." It was the experience of the early Friends that faithful following of the Light of Christ Within led them into unity with one another and their experience has been repeated generation after generation to the present time . Their great affirmation that the Light is given in some measure to everyone implied that each may also be led, if not in the same path, at least in the same direction. Thus, the nearer the members of a group come to this one Light, the nearer they will be to one another.
(Priciples of the Quaker Business Meeting, p.7) George Selleck