Exploring Faith
ideas are conscious and living, and they have will, and they have great desire to be made, and they spin through the cosmos, looking for human collaborators.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
I have this odd sense that what was outside has become very inside. And that whatever I mean by “God” is, as my Muslim friends say, as close to me as the heartbeat in my neck.
Barbara Brown Taylor • Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness” | The On Being Project
Mother Teresa said, “I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.”
But faith has never been more important, which is, “I don’t know, and I’ll go anyway.”
Barbara Brown Taylor • Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness” | The On Being Project
I’m not sure where I’d be if I hadn’t met @eliseloehnen (I’m the luckiest guy in the world because I did). We’ve traveled the world together, and we’ve also traveled deep into our own minds in trying to figure our shit out together. Elise is the author of the New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women... See more
instagram.comAnd I think the third way is, it’s a collaboration between a human being’s labors and the mysteries of inspiration. And that’s the most interesting dance that I think you can be involved in, but you are very much an agent in that story. You’re not just a passive receptacle. And also, it’s not entirely in your hands. And standing comfortably within... See more
Elizabeth Gilbert • Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
And when things don't happen that I want to happen, I, instead of going immediately into victimhood or fear or anxiety, I just try to go back to this like, that's interesting. I guess that wasn't for me. Maybe something better, maybe something different. I'm just gonna say in a place of, of faith, and it's not Pollyanna-ish either. It's just. A,... See more
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
That’s what I always think when I’m working on a project and it’s not working. I think — I will speak to the idea and say, “You came to me for a reason.” But in the meantime, I’ll come to my desk every day with the faith that you are also at my desk every day and that the two of us — this human being who is laboring and this mystery who is... See more
Elizabeth Gilbert • Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
Again, faith as a way to go deeper with yourself and become a truer version of yourself. You can do this through all of the faith that goes into creativity
ut then we have to remember like it's never out there that we're gonna find the answers that we need. It is only in here and we have to sort of deprogram or de-train ourselves from thinking from that type of thinking: If I just do all of these things, I'll be, well, if I d just do all of these things, I'll be good. If I just do all of these things,... See more
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
Faith as understanding ourself, collecting parts of ourselves


