Age Affects How People Experience Time.

We Are Only Peripherally Tied To The Lives Of Others. It Takes A Long Long Time For Us To Become Deeply Involved With Others, And For Some This Never Happens.

Shakespeare Reveals Human Nature Brilliantly: He Shines A Light On Our Instinctive Desire To Dominate Each Other.

People Are Tied Together And Yet Isolated From Each Other By Invisible Threads Of Rhythm And Hidden Walls Of Time. Time Is... A Primary Organizer Of All Activities, A Synthesizer And Integrator, A Way Of Handling Priorities And Categorizing Experience, A Feedback Mechanism For How Things Are Going, A Measuring Rod Against Which Competence, Effort, And Achievement Are Judged As Well As A Special Message System Revealing How People Really Feel About Each Other And Whether Or Not They Can Get Along.

By Their Very Nature Bureaucracies Have No Conscience, No Memory, And No Mind.

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.