In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises. — 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
