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  • 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.

    "A Contemplative Science" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2006.
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