• Lessons Learned

    It’s been roughly three years since the launch of this blog and if I had to sum up everything I’ve learned over that stretch of time it would boil down to something like this:…

    July 13, 2012
  • To Know Thyself: Conclusion

    “The entire spiritual dilemma, you know, boils down to only one problem — denial. Denial that everything which is born will die. Denial that everything I want to keep — identity, possessions, friends, family,…

    May 31, 2012
  • To Know Thyself: Part 2

    “We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom…

    May 3, 2012
  • To Know Thyself: Part 1

    “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” – Charles Bukowski Anyone with children knows they are famous for taking…

    April 20, 2012
  • Why God Part II: Stop Believing in Believing

    “Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes.” – Karl Marx Karl Marx’s famous dictum that “religion is the opiate of the masses” is based on the idea that we humans, haunted by fears…

    March 1, 2012
  • Why God?

    “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” – Jesus At the age of 13 something unimaginably humiliating happened to me…

    February 17, 2012