Tom Stroh

“The nap also has a deserved reputation for its spiritual benefits. The founders of the great world religions were dedicated nappers, and indeed, it was during their roadside dozes that their visions often came. The nap is a sort of easy version of meditation. Jesus was an idler. Buddha was definitely an idler. —Tom Hodgkinson, How to be Idle”
― Oliver Benjamin, The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski

“We must go to the roots of a problem and not invest too much energy fiddling with the symptoms. We shall never get whites and blacks, or Orientals and Occidentals, to unite by trying to tie the different branches of the human tree together with string. Attention must instead be shifted to the stem and the root, where, under the surface, we are one. It will take much less time.”
― Alan W. Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

“The whole history of religion is the history of the failure of preaching. Preaching is moral violence.”
― Alan W. Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

“In East Asia generally, the notion of a Supreme Being, so essential to Western religions, is replaced by that of a Supreme State of Being, an impersonal perfection from which beings including man are separated only by delusion.”
― John Blofeld, Taoism: The Road to Immortality