We are on the threshold of understanding a shining idea: that each life can have meaning, even if the universe has none. - Eric Maisel

Religion is excellent cover for the unscrupulous; it is much harder to think than it is to pray.

They are alive, but they are not engaged in the project of their own lives. No one has ever taught them otherwise. Why aren’t we offered any existential training? Because one of society’s unacknowledged goals is to minimize existential thought. A company making widgets doesn’t want you to wonder about the meaningfulness of its widget. It wants you to be attracted by the widget’s design and to buy two of them.

All that we have on our side is that inner voice that knows better.
And that is enough.