You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness - a more refined version of the problem you already have.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.

To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.