Essays

The essays below describe ideas that I have found helpful in practicing my ethics and spirituality. These ideas come from various poems, religions, philosophies, and sciences.

• Why Am I Agnostic?
• What is Spirituality?
• What is Humanism?

• Loving Others as Myself
• Transformation of Motivations
• Listening Carefully
• Caring for Others
• Loving My Enemies

• Protecting Others from Harm
• Excuses for Harm
• Us-Them Mindsets
• Use Nonviolent Methods
• Mourning Forceful Methods

• Interbeing
• Part of the Universe
• Respect Fashions of Living
• Intergroup Dialogue
• Non-Duality

• Impermanence
• Birth, Death, and Oblivion
• Attachment and Grief
• Two Types of Happiness
• Meaning in Life

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