CURRENT MISSION

Germany this summer

ABOUT ME

Currently a software engineer from Arizona, looking to travel to Germany soon!

PHILOSOPHY

A few things I value: a genuine personality (or I suppose any personality!), compassion, gratitude, curiosity, lightheartedness, goof, simplicity, life in all its forms.

And because I'm in love with good quotes!...

The surmising and the longings of all deep religiousness are contained in the ethics of reverence for life. This religiousness, however, does not build up for itself a complete philosophy, but resigns itself to the necessity of leaving its cathedral unfinished. It finishes the chancel only, but in this chancel piety celebrates a living and never-ceasing divine service.
- Albert Schweitzer

How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes?
- Barack Obama

All men can be criminals, if tempted; all men can be heroes, if inspired. And this doctrine does away altogether with Carlyle's pathetic belief (or any one else's pathetic belief) in 'the wise few.' There are no wise few.
-GK Chesterton

You know, Doris, people usually don't care about things until it touches their lives. And once it touches their lives their perception changes.
-Dr. Doris Taylor

So whatever you do, don't shut off your pain; accept your pain and remain vulnerable. However desperate you become, accept your pain as it is, because it is in fact trying to hand you a priceless gift: the chance of discovering, through spiritual practice, what lies behind sorrow.
-- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.
-- Albert Schweitzer

Theology... as a massive semantic event, has no content.... Everything about the relationship to God that "cannot be led back to an interhuman relation" is a myth.
-- John Caputo

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm hoping to travel all around Germany this summer (2014) and looking for places to stay.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet!

Interests

Good books, good conversation, philosophy, coffee, theology, tea, psychology, simple and delicious meals, etc. etc.

• books
• ethics
• coffee
• traveling
• divinity
• engineering
• psychology
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Eternal Sunshine, Magnolia, It's a wonderful Life, I am legend, Signs, Cache, Another Earth, Le Passe...
Tunes: Beck, The Roots, My Morning Jacket, Kurt Vile, Bright Eyes, Animal Collective, Wilco...
Shows?.. LOST + The Wire