“The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic and materialistic mind of the West or by a nobler pragmatism guided, uplifted and enlightened by spiritual culture and knowledge.” MindAgeSpiritualHumanityCultureIssuesProgressEconomicModernWestEnlightenedMaterialisticPragmatismFuture Progress Book:Ideal And Progress Source: Ideal And Progress
“Man is evolving...but it's difficult to see his progress with a Western perception of time. The Hindus think of time in much larger segments. They watch the hour hand of the clock while we in the West are preoccupied with the second hand.” ThinkingMenHandsDifficultHoursWatchesProgressPerceptionWestWesternEvolveClockSecond Hand Author:David Lynch
“Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.” PeopleWarDreamGovernmentPoliticalLostIssuesProgressWestEastRhetoricVersusDominationPolitical Rhetoric Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.” PhilosophyShowsLife IsConsciousnessProgressEvolutionHigherLetting GoEgoConnectionsLogicWestEastEvolveMaintainingSomething BetterIntegratedSelf ConsciousnessEast And WestCelestine Prophecy Author:James Redfield
“Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.” WorldHas BeensPovertyProgressMaterialsThirdsWestContactAgentsPrincipalThird World Author:Peter Thomas Bauer
“I am happy to accept that badge of ambivalence if that means some progress in dismantling this false opposition: writers boldly using their privileges of free speech in the morally superior West versus pathetic wimps in repressive countries we don't like.” IfsMeanCountryAcceptingProgressSpeechWestPrivilegeSuperiorsOppositionFree SpeechVersusPatheticBadgesAmbivalenceWimps Author:Pankaj Mishra