Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature -- is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned. Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

"Of late, with his new habit of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Nothing can come of nothing. King Lear

We need some sort of existential crisis to take an objective look at how we’ve been deriving our meaning in our life, and then consider a changing course. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck