Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. - Alan Watts

"I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.

Under the wide and starry sky Dig me a grave and let me lie; Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.

The way of Wisdom lies, therefore, in recognizing things which happen to you as your own karma — not as punishments for misdeeds or rewards for virtue (for there really is no “bad” or “good” karma), but as your own doing. For in this way you come to see that the real “you” includes both the controlled and the uncontrolled aspects of your experience.