How We Pay Attention To

Many Scientists Have Been Drawn To Buddhism Out Of A Sense That The Western Tradition Has Delivered An Impoverished Conception Of Basic, Human Sanity. In The West, If You Speak To Yourself Out Loud All Day Long, You Are Considered Crazy. But Speaking To Yourself Silently - Thinking Incessantly - Is Considered Perfectly Normal.

We Will See That The Greatest Problem Confronting Civilization Is Not Merely Religious Extremism: Rather, It Is The Larger Set Of Cultural And Intellectual Accommodations We Have Made To Faith Itself.

Either Our Wills Are Determined By Prior Causes And We Are Not Responsible For Them, Or They Are The Product Of Chance And We Are Not Responsible For Them.

It Is Time We Admitted That We Are Not At War With “terrorism.” We Are At War With Islam.

You Can Learn Something About A Person By The Company She Keeps.