Exploring Faith

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, th... See more

when we step outside ourselves — that was a creative act, right? It was an act of curiosity.

Spirituality is a practice of faith and I think about it as religion is sort of what we do and spirituality is what it is to be

You did not come into this world. You came out of it

those who did the most ordinary things in the world with reverence, or at least with some awareness that reverence was possible in the most ordinary things on earth.

that's why I think of myself as a person of faith and why my mantra is, I don't know. Because to presume to know, to presume that I can order the universe or understand all of the powers at play, or that I understand or know or can predict with absolute accuracy, everything that's going to happen or that we live in some sort of mechanic, materialis... See more

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.

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.