In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.
When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.
