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CGI Fellowship is an opportunity for spiritual community that is not defined by a specific doctrine of belief, but rather by a common set of spiritual principles. Together we create a sacred space and an open spiritual fellowship which allows each of us the freedom to define what that means for ourselves. Our objective is to empower people to develop along their own spiritual path and at their own pace. We draw from sacred texts and rituals from many of the major world religions for inspiration, questioning, and dialogue. We support each other in living our spiritual values in our daily lives.

We currently have CGI Fellowship groups in Astoria, Oregon, in Grants Pass, Oregon, and in the Verde Valley, Arizona. If you have a suggestion for another location, let us know!

Everything in your story is constantly changing, including the story you tell about who you are.

Don Miguel Ruiz
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
Thomas Merton

Merton
“We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are.”
The Talmud

Talmud
“When the Buddha taught, he … taught that there is a kind of innocent misunderstanding that we all share, something that can be turned around, corrected, and seen through, as if we were in a dark room and someone showed us where the light switch was. It isn’t a sin that we are in the dark room. It’s just an innocent situation, but how fortunate that someone shows us where the light switch is.” Pema Chodron

Chodron
“If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.” St. Bartholomew

St. Bartholomew
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow
“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.” Rumi

Rumi
“Let me be Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Mohammedan, or Sufi; I care not what my religion, my race, my creed, or my color be, if only I can win my way to Thee! But let me be none of these, if it enmesh me in labyrinthine ways of religious formalities. Let me travel the royal road of realization which leads to Thee.” Paramhansa Yogananda

Yogananda
“The power of the words I AM can change how you see yourself and how you see others. We have been conditioned to believe that who we are is ordinary—that who we are is what we have, what we do, what people think of us, what we own, and none of this is who we really are. Who we are is infinite light divine creation, and that creation is within all of us.” Wayne Dyer

Dyer
“If the you of five years ago doesn’t consider the you of today a heretic, then you are not growing spiritually.” Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton
May my focus on the light within be as dedicated as the attention my dog gives to his tennis ball. Unknown

Dog Devotion
Prayer of all healers and lightworkers:
“I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.” ACIM

A Course of Miracles
“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing – that when we look for what’s best in a person… we are participating in something sacred.” Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers
“We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.”
H.H. the Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama
“Throw off all thought of imaginary things and stand firm in that which you are.” Kabir

Kabir