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

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.

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 of life which differentiate them from you.

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

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

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.