I decided to accept as true my own thinking.
So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.
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.
All my experiences removed geography from my world.
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.