7 Men Transforming the World

Robert Thurman

Robert Thurman, professor of Indio-Tibetan studies at Columbia University, New York City:

"When I see my attitude about my own egotism and I realize that I am just one of all beings and I am interrelated with everyone else, then meditation is like a weight that pushes that realization down deeper into my gut until it finds the 'I, me, mine' level where it transforms it. Meditation is what makes my understanding experiential."