Now — unless some zoologist can dig up a weird exception — humans are the only living beings who wear clothes. They are also the only beings who laug… - Alan Watts

The whole problem is that it would be very bad indeed if God were the author of evil, and we were his victims. That is to say, if we keep the model of the king of the universe in which the creatures are all subjects of the king, then a God who is responsible for evil is being very unkind to the people. But in the Hindu theory, God is not another person. There are no victims of God. He is never anything but His own victim. You are responsible. If you want to stay in the state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

If everything that exists is an action of God, he must have an alarming humility, since he is not above employing his whole being to produce an ordinary housefly.

Ik geloof dat westerse kenners met een christelijke achtergrond het boeddhisme van goede werken nooit echt zullen kunnen begrijpen als ze het niet benaderen via het boeddhisme van vertrouwend geloof, dat zelf zo dicht bij het christelijk geloof staat.