Francine Thompson
@francine
Francine Thompson
The more mystical and precious, in a way, that we make creativity and spirituality both, the more people get left out of it.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
why are we here? Why do we live? Sounds like a ridiculous question, but he had an instant answer for it. He said, “We’re here to give praise.” We’re here to give praise. All of our religious teaching and all of our spiritual experience can be summed up in that conception: we’re on earth to give praise.
Adam Gopnik • Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith | The On Being Project
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.
Barbara Brown Taylor • Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness” | The On Being Project
ideas are conscious and living, and they have will, and they have great desire to be made, and they spin through the cosmos, looking for human collaborators.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
I don't know, it's just a place to rest really, honestly. It's a place to rest outside of certainty. Try it. You might find it deeply, deeply comforting, even though it promises to resolve absolutely nothing.
Elise Loehnen: What We’re After (Solo Episode) — Elise Loehnen
I don’t know as mantra
Public Work by Cosmos
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Religion's Toolbox
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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
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