Francine Thompson

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

But it affects my own feelings about the universe, because I think it’s demonstrative of the possibility that you can be completely committed to a rational, if you like, material explanation of existence, of why — how we got here, without being committed to a reductive account of our own experience. You can believe that there’s a completely... See more

I think curiosity is our friend that teaches us how to become ourselves.

So what’s saving my life right now is the old mantra of staying in the present as best I can and being amazed that life, as it unrolls every single day, is more than scenery as I rush from here to there. That it’s the real deal.

I feel small and disconnected, and a voice inside me warns I’ll soon expire due to age and uselessness. I don’t question where I learned such things. I don’t realize the voice isn’t even mine.

I think that that curiosity is, you know, my primary form of inspiration

It's like an undeniable reality. It's not a question of like what you believe in or how adherent you are to your faith. This is just, there's a divinity baked into all of us and, the and also that there are all these false binaries or these systems set up as oppositional.

I think about what it means to do nothing and still grow.