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I May Be Able To Spot Arrowheads On The Desert But A Refrigerator Is A Jungle In Which I Am Easily Lost.

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.

Viewing Movies In Very Slow Motion, Looking For Synchrony, One Realizes That What We Know As Dance Is Really A Slowed-down, Stylized Version Of What Human Beings Do Whenever They Interact.

The Essence Of Cross-cultural Communication Has More To Do With Releasing Responses Than With Sending Messages. It Is More Important To Release The Right Response Than To Send The Right Message.

The Reason Man Does Not Experience His True Cultural Self Is That Until He Experiences Another Self As Valid He Has Little Basis For Validating His Own Self.