We need to cultivate the habit of multicultural deep listening that provides for an ecology of cultures, and we need to ask the right questions: How do Africans think, walk, dream? How do Chinese understand the nature of Tao, the flow of things? How do the Eskimos see complete models of inner imagery, and the Balinese develop such remarkable capacity to perform and perfect many artistic forms? Our growing multicultural awareness is giving us perspectives and learnings that are no longer limited to a particular place and culture; they are becoming available to the whole family of humankind.

Jean Houston, Manual for a Peacemaker