Liberalism can be confused with ni… where you have to believe in nothi… or with Unitarian Universalism where you’re encouraged to believe… as much of everything as you like

My constant sense of dread Was just a case Of perpetual stage fright In a never-ending performance of c… Now that I’ve dropped the act

I’m not a Buddhist but I understand that the bodhisat… doesn’t enact his escape from suff… exiting the cycle of birth, old ag… but through the determination to r…

It takes talent to write a hit pie… but anyone can write a puff piece that in thirty years will read as a hit piece

You bet your bottom dollar I’ll bet the bottom of my heart

My dissertation defense fell apart even as I read my title– The Bronze Age: A Golden Age of…

A materialist looks around at ever… It’s all an accident His friend, the believer, adds his… It was an accident waiting to happ… The materialist and the believer a…

Your mind Is playing a trick on you And you are the trick But since all healing Is a form of getting over yourself

When God says Do what you want He knows You’re going to anyway His risk is betting you want

Old habits are hard to break but impossible to make New habits, like flossing, are easy to make

We’re told “Never give way on your desire!” even as we learn that “Desire is always the desire of th… Suffice to say,

It’s not that we’ve abolished death but we’ve made it a mere formality

Ignorance is bliss but playing dumb hollows out the abyss

There is hiding yourself and there is hiding from yourself; the former is often

If life is the in-breath and death the out-breath we presume that by ridding ourselves of death we’ll live an infinite in-breath