I have heard the problem behind our Western way of thinking expressed in many ways, but this by Antonin Artaud is perhaps the most fascinating.

“”I have always been struck by the obstinacy of the mind in insisting on thinking in terms of dimensions and intervals, in adhering to arbitrary states of things in order to think, in thinking in segments, in crystalloids, in thinking that every mode of being solidifies at a starting point, that thought not be in instant and uninterrupted contact with things, but that this fixation and immobilization, this kind of erection of the soul into monuments, arises into being, so to speak, BEFORE THOUGHT.”