“The mystic keeps the God question clean of all our unworthy and inferior answers … Meister Eckhart says the nearer you get to the presence the more God ceases to be God and is allowed to become completely Godself. So the spiritual life is about the liberation of God from our images of God.” - John O'Donohue 

“All-wise. All-powerful. All-loving. All-knowing. We bore to death both God and ourselves with our chatter. God is not to be expressed, only experienced.” - Frederick Buechner 

"Hurt people, hurt people. Free people, free people."  - Cleddie Keith

“When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.” - Lewis Smedes

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. 
 - Anne Lamott

Matthew's forgotten Beatitude, "Blessed are the flexible, they shall not break."

Learning how to discover God in the reality of the present moment.

"The key to living well is remembering that nothing lasts."  - Rami Shapiro

"Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers."  - Rabia al-Basri (8th Century Sufi mystic)

Through it all, the fires, the sirens, the numerous re-locations, the unbreathable smoke-filled air, the grief of loss, the uncertainty of the future – there was always a wordless awareness of being held by our Sacred Other. Never abandoned. Never alone. I experienced at the raw reptilian fear level what one writer observed, “Life is arbitrary, God is not.”