"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.” -Haruki Murakami

"There’s an energy that comes from sharing with people this place where I live, that I love, and my belief in the importance of community to contextualize anything that we try to do individually."

"You fit your gift. Your gift fits you..."

"...At this spot it turns and the water rushes over the rocks reminding us of the lessons to be learned about letting things move and flow like the river..."

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"Rarely, if ever, does an empathic response begin with ‘at least…’” –Brene Brown

Timeless words of wisdom from 13th-century poet, scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.

“In the middle of the night I thought, ‘I have to devise a plan to escape from this meditation center’… then I felt peaceful and alive, and I felt myself connected…”

"I want a theology that begins to deepen people’s understanding about their capacity to live fully human lives and to touch the goodness inside of them..."