East and west Quote by Anonymous

The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West…

— Rajneesh

“The idea of different countries and nationalities was purely an invention of the human mind handed down from one generation to the next, bringing…

— Christopher Dines

The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct…

— James Redfield

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

— Anonymous

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

— Camille Paglia

In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

— Duane Michals

In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares…

— Frederick Lenz

The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

— Rajneesh

The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to…

— Tehyi Hsieh

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

— Nelson Mandela

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

But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the…

— Rajneesh