The Patchwork Jacket offers a monthly, contemplative theme that goes beyond dogma and religious forms to a perspective of the spiritual Path that is universal, fluid, and inclusive. Inspired by the symbolic dress of the Bauls of Bengal, as a metaphor the patchwork jacket aspires to unity in diversity and a commitment to the evolutionary potential that exists within every human being. In a world of grave uncertainty, division, polarization, and conflict, the patchwork jacket represents not only an uplifting ideal but a way of being that is within our immediate reach as ordinary human beings who seek the wisdom of compassion, clarity and human dignity.