Francine Thompson

“Modern people are drawn to faith while practicing doubt, just as our ancestors professed doubt even as they practiced faith.”

And the thesis of this gospel is everything that you have is inside. This is an internal experience. And don't do anything that's adulterous to your nature essentially. And by that he meant that's sort of in disobeyance to who you to really are. It's your job to figure out who you really are.

So just as the assertion of God doesn’t give you a value system, the denial of God does not give you a value system, either.

Those systems are things we have to make for ourselves. And we make them, as we’ve been talking all this time, usually by addressing the old ones. We’re not capable of making everything up for ourselves. So we go back to ethic... See more

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

There's really no way to do this right.

I learn I can leave things out of my mind, and they can get done.

It’s also that what we have referred to as “body” and what we’ve referred to as emotion and spirit, that those things in fact are completely entangled.

I’m going to continue to speak about the questions that ignite and illuminate my existence within myself and in the world.