Dissolving Quote by Karan Bajaj

Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and…

— Karan Bajaj

In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid…

— Frederick Lenz

In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't…

— Frederick Lenz

A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that if you…

— Rod Stryker

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“In the West everyone wants the “highest” practice, a wish that indicates a misunderstanding of the path. Everyone wants to hurry through the foundational…

— Tenzin Wangyal

Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different

— Richard J. Foster

Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from…

— James Hillman

Where there is yoga, there is prosperity, success, freedom and bliss.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

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 spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for…

— Frederick Lenz

I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now. More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos