We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly r….

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer.

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 w….

Age affects how people experience time..

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too gr….

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture.….

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the r….

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out ….

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants..

The information is in the people, not in your head..

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 ….

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when ….

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual….

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 o….

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other..

... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and cultur….

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out..

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organis….

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details ….

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of tho….