Francine Thompson

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.

The more mystical and precious, in a way, that we make creativity and spirituality both, the more people get left out of it.

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.

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

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

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

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