Behavior Quote by Alan Watts

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man…

— George Carlin

Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith dominates.

— Rene Girard

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

— Hamza Yusuf

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

— Jacques Maritain

Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions,…

— Huston Smith

“secular, pluralistic, Western culture? There are several other “pressure points” at which our culture in the West is vulnerable to challenge. Western culture longs…

— Timothy Keller

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the…

— Stanislav Grof

The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known…

— Huston Smith

Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and…

— Richard Rohr

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially…

— Matthew Fox

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

— Ernest Holmes