“… Whenever we can relate to fear rather from fear, our sense of who we are begins to shift and enlarge.  Instead of constructing a tense and embattled self, we can reconnect with our naturally spacious awareness.  Instead of being trapped in and defined by our experiences, we can recognize them as a changing stream of thoughts and feelings.  In these moments we have awakened from trance.”  Tara Brach (The Trance of Fear)

“My faith is not a checklist to complete.  It’s not an evacuation plan to make and it’s not a club to belong to.  It’s a current I surrender to that leads me again and again toward those I’ve been taught to fear so I can see them up close and fall in love.” Glennon Doyle Melton

“Kindness, patience and all these other qualities should not be understood as individual acts that we ‘do’, such as an ‘act of kindness’ or ‘patience in the moment.’  Eventually we awaken to the realization that these are graces that reside within us, subtly reshaping an act of kindness into a person of kindness.”  Carolyn Myss

“God refuses to be known intellectually.  God can only be loved and known in the act of love; God can only be experienced in communion.” Fr. Richard Rohr (Faith as Participation)