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.

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.

But faith has never been more important, which is, “I don’t know, and I’ll go anyway.”

And 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

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

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

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