The atheist’s way is your way. You will take your journey, and it will not be identical to my journey. - Eric Maisel

Meaning is a choice, not a lost object.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: there are no gods. We arise from nature—and nature is not a moral entity.

The rose’s fragrance, the garden’s lushness, and the night sky’s grandeur affect us because we are built to appreciate beauty and to experience awe. To leap to a supernatural source for these powerful but ordinary feelings is to indulge in wishful thinking, romantic embellishment, and metaphoric fantasizing.