Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.