"In the small day-to-day tasks, in the organization of collective spaces, in harvesting, in the preparation of food, in prayer, in instruction and in selfless service there is much to be learned; we understand what greater love is, fraternity, and union and the connection with something greater and divine."

"Figueira provides possibilities that I never imagined finding. It is a test that, with love,
effort, unity and determination we can do anything with enough time. We can apply this lesson to any situation in life.”

"The experience in Figueira makes me live a path forward towards the integration of positive principles day by day. Being in these conditions provides a more conscious existence, more than what we are normally used to knowing and learning. Since 1993 my learning here has been consistent"

"Figueira represents a place to take steps towards a new life, a unique opportunity to be able to serve, work, learn to put others first, grow internally. Since the moment I said yes to the universe, many doors opened and I am very grateful for everything I have lived."

"Figueira represents, for me, a school where we learn what we truly are and what we need to transform. Since I arrived here 30 years ago, Figueira always presented us with different types of tasks so that we would have many possibilities to grow through our service to God."

 "Figueira is a school of redemption, which helps our inner work, based on community life and integration with nature."

"Being in Figueira is being closer to a real and sustainable life, to a time closer to the eternal present and to a new way of living, based on the common good, fraternity and unconditional love."

"Figueira was a great watershed in my life. It was where I found myself again and recognized myself. A mixture of happiness, inner peace, the feeling of having arrived home, the joy of seeing the brothers that I had not seen for a long time... Gratitude being here is immeasurable!"

"Being in Figueira is also being able to awaken one's gifts and talents. It's rising to our true essence." 
 

“It is a place where everything is presented so that we can deepen ourselves in the degrees of true love, that love that connects us with the essence of each being, each situation and ourselves. Here we have the opportunity to practice brotherhood, which activates those virtues that God has placed in each one of us.”

“Being in Figueira is like participating in an intensive course on practices that we need to apply in 
our lives, it's living a higher school of learning.”

“Being in Figueira is waking up to real life. Here we feel truly loved. That experience stays alive in us forever.”