The Soul of Desire Quotes

“Because when our attention is firmly ensconced in the past or the future, we remain outside the present moment, the only dimension of the temporal domain of integration in which we are able to find joy and create beauty, even in the presence of our suffering. The psalmist offers a commitment to focus on something different than what we commonly do.”
― Curt Thompson, The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community

“Who would we become if we could see the moments we occupy as opportunities to create beauty, not least on our relational canvases?”
― Curt Thompson, The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community

“What they needed from me was not, first, right theology; they needed me to be their embodied imaginer of beauty, if you will, while their brains tried to catch up.”
― Curt Thompson, The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community

“if anything good or beautiful is happening, God is in the room and on the loose.”
― Curt Thompson MD, The Soul of Desire: Discovering the Neuroscience of Longing, Beauty, and Community