Quote by Marilynne Robinson

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

— Marilynne Robinson

“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain…

— Rodney Stark

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

— Chogyam Trungpa

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

“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on…

— Edward Luce

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

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for,…

— Charles Baudouin

“There is indeed something preposterous about well-educated Westerners racing East in search of spiritual enlightenment while Easterners make the opposite pilgrimage seeking education and…

— Sam Harris

“I love the idea of westerns. It’s a simple dynamic: a man or woman overcoming hardship to carve out a meaningful life in a…

— Darrell Pitt

That the whole world is not the West and that there are other ways of doing things, whether it's eating, seeing or valuing life.

— Paterson Joseph

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former has not been kicked in the ass enough.

— Witold Gombrowicz

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

— Witold Gombrowicz