Buddhism

[Dalai Lama:] No species--not even the human species--can place itself outside the world, outside the wheel of the universe. We are one of the cogs in that wheel.
		p. 33
The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere	Violence and Compassion Doubleday, 1996
English translation of Force du bouddhisme (Editions Robert Laffont-Fixot,1994). Conversations between Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Jean-Claude Carriere.