“Here you encounter fellow seekers dancing with discovering vocabulary for everyday mystical experiences as they listen to and take seriously the movements of their own souls and lives. While these stories take inspiration from past and present mystics and creatives, including Brother Lawrence, Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton, James Finley, bell hooks, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Gospel of Thomas, Lama Rod Owens, Teresa of Avila, Hildegard of Bingen, Dorothy Day, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Maya Angelou, Lerita Coleman Brown, Bernadette Roberts, Therese Taylor- Stinson, Grace Ji Sun Kim, Octavia Butler, Meister Eckhart, the Cloud of Unknowing’s Anonymous, John Coltrane, and Dr. Barbara A. Holmes, among others, they return us again and again to the divine within each soul.”

— From the Foreword