Brad Warner Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual, my first instinct is to be cynical and think, "oh yeah, one of those again." You see so much of it see in "spiritual culture" and people get very excited about it. It's all very "hoo haw."

  Brad Warner

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn't have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.

  Brad Warner

  Couple, Japan, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's important to remember they weren't always separate realms of inquiry.

  Brad Warner

  Philosophy, Ideas, Innovation

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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