Francine Thompson

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

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

That’s what I always think when I’m working on a project and it’s not working. I think — I will speak to the idea and say, “You came to me for a reason.” But in the meantime, I’ll come to my desk every day with the faith that you are also at my desk every day and that the two of us — this human being who is laboring and this mystery who is... See more

But faith, let's go.

But faith has never been more important, which is, “I don’t know, and I’ll go anyway.”

Allen Watts, which I think is the best summation of the difference between belief and faith, he wrote in The Wisdom of Insecurity , “whether one believes in God or believes in atheism, we must here make a clear distinction between belief and faith because in general practice belief has come to mean a state of mind, which is almost the opposite of... See more