“Suppose we say that the Lord God simply exploded into being, and we are the little curlicues on the edge of this explosion. The people who are farthest out get the idea they are individuals. They are not separate from God, but they have this sense of individuality, just as we might say that when a farmer plants his fields, the individual seeds are separate. But they are still part of the whole process, the whole rhythm of the seasons, of growth and decay. This is the game that God is playing.”

— Alan Watts