Francine Thompson
@francine
Francine Thompson
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
in that quest for certainty in that desire to sort of do the right thing or get to the end or, be good, we want some sort of exterior authority, some system of belief to confirm for us that we're following all the steps and checking everything off the to-do list. And that's a fallacy, certainly.
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
One is that it’s all coming from me: Nothing funny is going on here; there is no spirit moving across the face of the earth. I’m just a pile of DNA, my cerebral cortex is firing off, and that is why my creativity exists, right? It’s all me; it’s only me — which is great, except then, how do you explain the mysterious part that you can’t explain,... See more
Elizabeth Gilbert • Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
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.comI think that that curiosity is, you know, my primary form of inspiration
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
I decided to finally interview Adam in 2015, when I read the foreword he wrote to a book called The Good Book , in which an array of intellectual and literary figures reflect on the Bible. Adam Gopnik sums up a core irony of our secular age in this way: “Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith. We moderns are drawn to faith while... See more
Adam Gopnik • Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith | The On Being Project
You did not come into this world. You came out of it
Suburban Biology
And yet, the hunger for holiness in terms of a sense of being rooted — grounded in shifting ground — which oddly means that to be, what, to be holy is to keep one’s balance while the earth moves under our feet.