Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you. ~Jean Paul Sartre

Awareness empowers us because it makes choice possible. We cannot get to action until we first develop awareness. From awareness we move toward acceptance. Then and only then can move into a state of action. Whether we realize it or not we are always “at choice.” It is our ( Read more... )

Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you

~Jean Paul Sartre

Everything happens for a reason. Can there be any cliché more indicative of post modern spirituality than this? Certainly there exist causal relationships. Our reality or, at least, our perception of reality is based on the observation of causal relationships. A man smoking a ( Read more... )

Q. Isn’t being an atheist a rather shallow way to live? You don’t believe in God and you have no spirituality. So what kind of an inner life can you have?

A. This is a complex question. Actually you have asked what I consider to be two interrelated questions. In order to answer this I would need some specifics. What do you mean by atheist and what ( Read more... )

My religion is a joyful agnosticism. Actually I am a joyfully agnostic Gnostic if that makes any sense, which it does to me. I speak the language of liberal Christianity but have more of a spirit of religious humanism mixed with a fondness for the French Existentialists such as Camus and Sartre who, ironically, were atheists. Its not that I don't ( Read more... )

There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that

Albert Camus 
The Myth of Sysphus (1942)