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Ken Wilber

(1949) Philosopher United States

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Ken Wilber says the real problem lives inside us, not outside. He describes authentic spirituality as something that shatters the world instead of soothing it. He also talks about consciousness as a ladder of levels, each one higher than the last.

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Ken Wilber is a philosopher from the United States, best known for Global Unitive Healing.

Quick Facts About Ken Wilber

Born: January 31, 1949
Nationality: United States
Profession: Philosopher
Notable works: Global Unitive Healing
Known for: Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

About Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber is an American writer who studies transpersonal psychology and created an integral theory that uses a four‑quadrant grid to model all human knowledge and experience.

Quotes by Ken Wilber

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

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Do you even recognize your own consciousness?

Consciousness

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Society forces you to conform.

Community

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There is nothing in the universe but matter.

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Freedom is an endless meeting.

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Was it someone else? Was it not you yourself?

Funny

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Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

Complexity

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I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

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Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

Boundaries

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There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.

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Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

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On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...

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In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

Capitalism

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Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

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AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good…

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The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.

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Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.

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Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only…

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Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting…

Breaths

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What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth — or in heaven — do I mean by integral? The…

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The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is…

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Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill…

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I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I…

Biochemistry

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The basic idea of integral transformative practice (ITP) is simple: the more aspects of our being that we simultaneously exercise, the more…

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I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and…

Compassionate

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Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at…

Buddhism

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Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts;…

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The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life…

Engagement

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The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you…

Divine

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Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins…

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The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau…

Adaptation

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A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to…

Atoms

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“And scholars of the mystical, or esoteric, or inner teachings of the world’s Great Traditions are fairly unanimous in saying that although…

Education

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“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an…

Academia

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If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who…

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But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see…

Absolutes

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If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a…

Being sick

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“As simple as that sounds, it is nevertheless extremely difficult to adequately discuss no-boundary awareness or nondual consciousness. This is because our…

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“A Super-Integral Spirituality has all the features of an Integral Spirituality, plus, among other things, an inherent conjunction of each stage with…

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In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines,…

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Ken Wilber by topic

Spirit (36) Self (25) World (24) Religion (24) Consciousness (23) Time (22) Spirituality (22) Mind (20) Philosophy of Mind (19) Psychology (19) Awareness (19) Soul (18) Truth (16) Spiritual (14) Life (13) Inspirational (12)