Surely, if we could create the world anew, the practice of organizing our lives around untestable propositions found in ancient literature — to say n… - Sam Harris

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.

I still find that a willingness to be honest — especially about things that one might be expected to conceal — often leads to much more gratifying exchanges with other human beings.

And then came the insight that irrevocably transformed my
sense of how good human life could be. I was feeling boundless love for one of my best friends, and I suddenly realized that if a
stranger had walked through the door at that moment, he or she
would have been fully included in this love. Love was at bottom
impersonal — and deeper than any personal history could justify.
Indeed, a transactional form of love — I love you because. . . — now
made no sense at all.