Robert Anton Wilson and The Dalai Lama

I enjoy finding links between seemingly unrelated subjects in the course of my free readings, and found this great nugget courtesy of Robert Anton Wilson [I've just finished his 'Cosmic Trigger' and am almost through The Dalai Lama's autobiography]. When asked "What are the most important lessons you've learned in your long life?", Mr. Wilson replied:

1. They live happiest who have practiced forgiveness.

2. A sense of humor results from perspective. The wider the perspective, the more humor you will perceive.

3. Dogmas kill both intelligence and perception.

4. I don't know what is important art or literature, but I know I prefer science fiction and surrealism to mainstream books, Orson Welles to Elia Kazan, bawdy jokes to ugly news bulletins, and Gene Kelly musicals to Death of a Salesman.

5. The Dalai Lama seems the only religious leader around who isn't at least half crazy.

6. Certitude belongs exclusively to those who look up the answer in only one encyclopedia.