The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
If Spirit has any meaning, it must be omnipresent, or all-pervading and all-encompassing. There can't be a place where Spirit is not, or it… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
Evolution occurs in the world of time and space and form, whereas Spirit's primordial nature is finally timeless and Formless, prior to the of… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
Is this a topic whose time has truly come? The integration of science and religion? Or have I just written a clever book that… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone. — Ken Wilber Copy Share
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
I believe that evidence shows that there is a real spirit, a real Beach, but it is beneath no pavement whatsoever, for all pavements… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
Furthermore, it is not that Spirit is present but you need to be enlightened in order to see it. It is not that you… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth — or in heaven — do I mean by integral? The dictionary meaning… — Ken Wilber Copy Share
Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time. — Ken Wilber Copy Share
