Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.