Buddhist meditation techniques are now being tried with hyperactive children. That is more important to me than its promise of salvation. I have no more control over my departure from this life than I had over my arrival. It gives me pause. And pleasure, I was a cute kid.
Life is joyful interrogation, any answer is blasphemy.
I have learned to trust reason in the pursuit of truth, as the Great Books promised. But I am just learning that it is not truth that drives me, but meaning. And when it comes to the thrill of finding meaning, I have learned to trust poets ahead of theologians. Trust the poets, only never, ever give them more than one vote.