Francine Thompson

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

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 universe conspires with you. It doesn't select you, you're not special, but it conspires with you when you put yourself in motion.

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

those who did the most ordinary things in the world with reverence, or at least with some awareness that reverence was possible in the most ordinary things on earth.

what religion brings us is not a dogma but a practice. That’s the rich thing it brings us. That’s the significant thing that it brings us, and that the idea of having a spiritual practice is one that’s completely compatible with the idea of being extremely skeptical of dogma; that those two things are not at war. They may be in tension, the way so... See more

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.

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