Uday

“The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.”
― Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

“Josh Baran’s experience with Sorting It Out prepared him for operating in this battlefield. He had seen the dark side of religious commitment, the tendency of some of its strains to erect a system of beliefs that denies the validity of other ways. Intolerance of any path but the one “true” way follows a similar story line everywhere, whether it is a cult’s perfect master demanding followers’ fealty to an ideal of spiritual purity or religious leaders asserting that the United States is destined to be a Christian nation. Baran saw it as his mission to use the tools of the public relations discipline to open up a space in people’s minds for the concept of freedom of expression—to remind them that it is legitimate in America to write and read varied interpretations of art and religion, to have one’s own internal definition of what is true.”
― Thomas R. Lindlof, Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars

“It is generally admitted that Dhyana Buddhism, which was born in India and, after undergoing profound changes, reached full development in China, to be finally adopted by Japan, where it is cultivated as a living tradition to this day, has disclosed unsuspected ways of existence which it is of the utmost importance for us to understand.”
― Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery

“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises