Caroline Oaks is a writer/spiritual director/publicist who is fascinated with the shifts in mind and spirit that slowing down and noticing can bring.

She studies and follow luminaries of the perennial wisdom that underlies all religions and spiritual traditions — thinking of spiritual teachers like Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver and Hafiz and the Desert Mothers and Fathers, and Richard Rohr's Wisdom School with Cynthia Bourgeault and James Finley.