It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.
Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.
Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.
Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.
Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
When clothes wear you, it's pretty evident. You've got to wear the clothes, not the other way around.
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.