Ken Wilber

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

— Ken Wilber

The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

— Ken Wilber

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

— Ken Wilber

Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness.

— Ken Wilber

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

— Ken Wilber

As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

— Ken Wilber

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

— Ken Wilber

These two enormous forces — truth and meaning — are at war in today's world…And something sooner or later has to give.

— Ken Wilber

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole.…

— Ken Wilber

In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.

— Ken Wilber

Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and…

— Ken Wilber

It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are.…

— Ken Wilber

Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters…

— Ken Wilber

There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not…

— Ken Wilber

The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance…

— Ken Wilber

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all.…

— Ken Wilber

There are several different meanings of the words religion and spirituality, all of which are important. The whole point about an integral…

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We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual…

— Ken Wilber

You are not the one who experiences liberation; you are the clearing, the opening, the emptiness, in which any experience comes and…

— Ken Wilber

It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any war between…

— Ken Wilber

Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than…

— Ken Wilber

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

Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One…

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The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be…

— Ken Wilber

What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind…

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“Thus, unlike the previous Pluralistic View, the Integral View is truly holistic, not in any New Age woo-woo sense but as being…

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“Sometime the witch hunting takes on atrocious dimensions — the Nazi persecution of Jews, the Salem witch trials, the Ku Klux Klan…

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“Because the egoic mind has led us to feel separate from our immortal Ground of Being over the millennia, we have invented…

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"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul…

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“Anything which is just born, which has just come into existence, has no past behind it. Birth, in other words, is the…

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“Finally, in terms of overall spiritual intelligence—which we have been briefly tracking—on the other side of the leading edge of evolution we…

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“Although one of the points of an Integral approach to any problem is to language that issue in a s large a…

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Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

— Ken Wilber

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out…

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Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact…

— Ken Wilber

The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your…

— Ken Wilber

I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply…

— Ken Wilber

The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The…

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...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really…

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And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment…

— Ken Wilber