As the sun sets on my way home from work, I decide to stop my bike in the promenade across the lake from the Binnenhof, the Dutch parliament. Every evening at sunset, hundreds of parakeets descend on the island in the middle of the lake, filling the sky with their screeching song. Sat alone onRead more about God doesn’t think. He vibrates. We’re trying to enter into the vibration zone[…]

I would call myself a humanist. I believe in the innate values of humankind. Religion tends to formalise these innate values. Religion can be called a superstition. The reason why religion is a necessity for most people is the unknowingness of the universe; the infinity. What lies at the end of infinity? I doubt we’llRead more about What lies at the end of infinity? I doubt we’ll ever know.[…]

I believe in something. I had a bit of a spiritual awakening recently. And that’s only partly a joke. It sounds like cultural appropriation but I think I’m a bit of Daoist. I believe there’s a lot of dualities in things and that there are so many ambiguities in any sort of behaviour. So forRead more about I believe in a sort of ‘benevolent myth’ – a term I found on Wikipedia![…]

I believe in having a supportive community that keeps me accountable and keeps me learning. And I believe that we should be listening more than doing as part of that. The more people I get to know, I come to realise how many experiences there are out there that I would likely never go throughRead more about Jesus literally said it: we have to love other people like we love ourselves.[…]

I believe that there’s some kind of element controlling the universe. I don’t stick a name on it but I firmly believe in it. As a child I was brought up in the United Church. I went to Sunday School and all that. But as I grew up I began to question, “why is itRead more about I don’t think people would judge me as very spiritual but I think I am.[…]