"I believe that Western science will develop towards a more synthetic view of its different branches...psychology, biology and physics. It will find a connecting link, a relation between these areas of experience. In the past the scientific and the spiritual or mental development have been regarded as separate from each other, as two different paths leading in opposite directions. But now, in the late twentieth century, this view is beginning to change."— from The Dalai Lama, a Policy of Kindness