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When Western People Train The Mind, The Focus Is Generally On The Left Hemisphere Of The Cortex, Which Is The Portion Of The Brainthat Is Concerned With Words And Numbers. We Enhance The Logical, Bounded, Linear Functions Of The Mind. In The East, Exercises Of This Sort Are For The Purpose Of Getting In Tune With The Unconscious--to Get Rid Of Boundaries, Not To Create Them.

I Have Found The Study Of Organisms To Be A Truly Exciting Experience, Always Interesting And Sometimes Humbling.

Culture Is Not Made Up But Something That Evolves Which Is Human.

We Should Never Denigrate Any Other Culture But Rather Help People To Understand The Relationship Between Their Own Culture And The Dominant Culture. When You Understand Another Culture Or Language, It Does Not Mean That You Have To Lose Your Own Culture.

We Live Fragmented, Compartmentalized Lives In Which Contradictions Are Carefully Sealed Off From Each Other. We Have Been Taught To Think Linearly Rather Than Comprehensively, And We Do This Not Through Conscious Design Or Because We Are Not Intelligent Or Capable, But Because Of The Way In Which Deep Cultural Undercurrents Structure Life In Subtle But Highly Consistent Ways That Are Not Consciously Formulated.