5 Quotes About Eastern Religion

The Eastern religions are a collection of diverse belief systems that are practiced across the world. While they may seem unrelated, there are some striking similarities in their core ideas about the purpose of life and how to achieve enlightenment. The goal of all the major Eastern religions is to unlock the mysteries of existence through meditation, prayer, or an experience with a guru. Here are some of our favorite quotes about eastern religion to help you get enlightened by the wisdom of its great teachers.

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A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life. Christopher Hitchens
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All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization. Roshan Sharma
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Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation. Ray Simpson
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Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. 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