East Quote by Rajneesh

In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because of this…

— Rajneesh

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

The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

— D. H. Lawrence

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

In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless you have…

— Rajneesh

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

I think Easterners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their mind about God, and I think Westerners have to be dragged kicking…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only…

— Muhammad Asad

Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to…

— Karen Armstrong

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas,…

— Eckhart Tolle

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

— Deepak Chopra

The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere.…

— Dumitru Tepeneag