In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in …

- Sy Safransky

How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.

- Sy Safransky

I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with…

- Sy Safransky

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it gr…

- Sy Safransky

The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have go…

- Sy Safransky