The best lack all conviction, the worst are full of passionate intensity. Everything truthful is paradoxical. So when he said 10 years ago, the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity, he was describing the fact that you know, we have these fundamentalists, right. And those people who try to reify their own dogma by inflicting it on other people, kill other people. So the best lack all conviction is an ironic way of saying let's be relativist not dogma test, and let's not inflict our belief system on other people. This is really interesting when you listen to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, because he says, if you're a Jew, stated you don't convert to Buddhism.
Just be a good Jew. And if you're a Christian, don't convert to Buddhism just be a good Christian, because Buddhism is relativistic. And you know, if you look at the crusades, and you look at ISIS and that was the origin of all terrible things in our world is this inherent to conviction. So, the best lack all conviction, while the worst, the are the fundamentalists who are saying, the whole world has to appear the way we believe it should appear and other people don't have the right to their own beliefs. So that's what the eight is saying. With this quote,