Quotes from Craig Thompson

The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell... So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

You know, sometimes you look at me with longing... ... even though I'm here with you.

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

Except heaven is a hope , and eden is a memory .

I love the sea because it is boundless.

I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity... its Bible, its churches, its dogma-- only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of being HUMAN, and it ignores all these GAPS that need to be filled in by the individual.

Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but not together.

And slowly the snow began to melt. First, doing a number on children's constructions; Then retreating to the foundations of barns and other buildings. Mangy grass poked through the receding snow. Patches of white were swallowed up in the till of the fields. New shapes emerged. Areas of the forest became INACCESSIBLE now that the snow no longer weighed down the weeds and brier. ...Nothing fits together anymore.

You and I are so much the same... You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go... ... But we're the ones that are most scared, and need the most love.

I promise-ted I'd care up for him downwise 'til the tailend of time.

And there you have it, Your Highness. Turning a jug of water into gold.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.