Fullness — A term meant to capture the human impulsion to find significance, meaning, value—even if entirely within the immanent frame.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it's slow.

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.

I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.

When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.