I'm more Jewish than Christian, more Buddhist than Jewish, but if I had to give a straight answer, I would just say I'm a humanist.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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