LOVE it love it LOVE it!
As always, I could highlight every line as a beacon, a tease, a temptation to other readers to #ReadThis excellent post. Hundreds of thousands of new posts appear daily at Hive, but few indeed are as full of substance, marrow, challenges, inspiration, and food for thought as yours.

This:
"Later on in life, as an angry young man full of Existentialist doubt, it's The Grand Inquisitor chapter in Brothers Karamazov that did it for me -- when the Christ figure responds, wordlessly, to the frustrations of his accuser ('I, respectfully, return my ticket') with a kiss."

And your own "fan fiction," so to speak, your story with a nod to the master's Underground, is stellar, spot-on, and all too accurate:

To accept oneself, fully, is to assume responsibility for all that wanders in the wasteland of our heads and, that is a most dangerous thing to do. Instead, one should only judge oneself by their actions, and not for their thoughts. Thought is thwarted action, impotent action, unactualized action; active but not action. The thoughts we choose to act upon define us to others, the ones we don’t define us to ourselves.

This is SO BIG, I want to shout it from the rooftops.
But who will hear - who will listen - who will understand, and recognize him/her/themselves?
You can be the oracle of Delphi, dispensing wisdom to any who ask for it, yet who listens?

"We are merely figures of fun moved by unseen forces" - you remind me how Odysseus thought he could bypass his "fate." Who listens? Who heeds good advice?

Well, millions of people must, or we wouldn't have billions of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus (some 10,000 religions in all) - sometimes, a prophet *is heard and heeded.

Heed Yahia!
Listen to Yahia!

With Twitter, Hive, You-Tube, books, podcasts, and that occasional interview with NPR, you surely must be getting your insights out there to a lot of people. May we be changed and improved by listening. :)