Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

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.

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

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

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 one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

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