Even when we think we are in the present moment we are in very subtle ways looking over its shoulder anticipating what's coming next. We're always so… - Sam Harris

Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics — by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.

One can traverse the Eastern paths simply by becoming interested in the nature of one’s own mind — especially in the immediate causes of psychological suffering — and by paying closer attention to one’s experience in every present moment. There is, in truth, nothing one need believe.

Ethical transgressions are generally divided into two categories: the bad things we do (acts of commission) and the good things we fail to do (acts of omission). We tend to judge the former far more harshly. The origin of this imbalance remains a mystery, but it surely relates to the value we place on a person’s energy and intent.