The mysterious

"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery-even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms-it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvellous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavour to comprehend a portion, be it never so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature."

— The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
https://a.co/f80TH0k

the ultimate thanks-giving

"I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."

When the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks learned that he was dying, he wrote something almost unbearably beautiful about the measure of living — the ultimate thanks-giving:

https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/oliver-sacks-gratitude

“A humanist is a person…”

A Mandate of Heaven

Hitch's main objection to dogmatic doctrinal religion:

https://www.threads.net/@travismeadors_/post/DC25vmysye3?xmt=AQGzd8Ih28KSYFYSC9z43s5YMLbLaw9HKbYLXQVOQQnNmQ

Humanism

https://www.threads.net/@humanists_uk/post/DCWVNJWI_Qp?xmt=AQGzCSfi3qN0dWfwQrPSHVwqmAu5K3tIOXjZm7SXO-9w4Q

10 Commitments

https://www.threads.net/@divorcingreligion/post/DCTE7vCxWAL?xmt=AQGzUzuqJX0qEZJMet9wATQ1LkrG6wNUGl4CzJB-5T0j3A

Vonnegut

https://www.threads.net/@humanists_uk/post/DCOso05oh3Z?xmt=AQGz8mUJLUXUeejaBs-wsK0zkmtw2EsmkQLDcPx1HngX7A