What scares me? The way the world is going. People seem to think that development is more important than sustainability. That fundamentalism is more important than openness. That racial differences should dictate political decisions. That a person's sexuality is somebody else's business.
Ursula Goodenough
Law is necessary, but in a more functional culture, it would presumably be less necessary than it is now, because people would know what to do.
culture people
There are two kinds of power. Power over is very problematical. Power within is very exciting. You can tell the difference by whether you are messing with other people or not.
people power
people business
I like mindful people. Fear prevents mindfulness, and then greed marches in because you are fearful, so you feel like you have to shore everything up.
people
Naturalism has been defined by many people. It's just a world view that does not include the supernatural so it's everything else.
Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.
circumstances life miracles
Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.
thetimes time
Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.
home history
The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.
mystery evolution death
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
self
The word religion goes back to the Latin ligere, to bind. So religion means to bind together again. I think we should develop religions that allow us to do that.
religion
Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.
information education
The concept of an independent spiritual realm does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human.
magic mind
The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.
door
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.
principles evolution
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