Touchstone: Dancing with Angels

George 'Shaker' McNeil:
Tragedy and blessing are often the very same thing... it's just how you receive it.

Anja Daniel:
When I was 11, I said to my parents, 'I would love to go away from everything, to see something different,' - to go to a place where I can sleep in hay.

George 'Shaker' McNeil:
Touchstone is a community of hermits who like people.

Anja Daniel:
Actually most people live like monks here... and nuns.

Eugene Connelly:
I would say that I was 95% closed and the word "love" in general would have scared me... I couldn't accept, couldn't give it. I was completely closed off... Yeah. And I got here, and I was like, 'No, it's too much for me. Too much love.' Couldn't handle it. I cried a lot.

Dan Kinsey:
This is the natural way to live... The other way of having a house and a couple of kids... a job, and a couple of cars... I was allergic to it from Day 1.

Star Drooker:
Their fear doesn't necessarily consume them the way it does with other people.

Phyllis Rodin:
Touchstone does talk about the mystery and that you are in the right place at the right time doing the right thing, if not, you wouldn't be here... And if you are part of the whole, then you are the whole, - because the part is the whole.

Rowan Scott:
Everything is energy. Everything is relationship. And this I believe will guide future generations, I hope, - so that perhaps we can recover from this destructive phase of our history, - the world and its cycle of destruction and construction... Because this is a place where Shiva dances. This is Shiva dancing the worlds in and out of existence. This is the eternal dance of existence.

George 'Shaker' McNeil:
In modern physics, we now know that dream and stone are compromised of the same substance... that's the real world.

Ron Catabia:
If I only had one thing that I could say to God that would be, 'Please show me the way. Show me the way.'