Awareness Quotes by Ken Wilber

19 Awareness quotes by Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber weaves together philosophy, psychology, and spirituality in nineteen succinct statements that suggest awareness is a bridge linking many layers of experience. His words feel like a map for those seeking a broader view.

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

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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…

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To develop a more or less accurate self-image...is simply to gain a comprehensive awareness of those facets of yourself which you didn't…

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Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the…

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The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate.…

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Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture…

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As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial…

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It is not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too…

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

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You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now…

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Furthermore, it is not that Spirit is present but you need to be enlightened in order to see it. It is not…

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Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire,…

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Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in…

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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,…

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Further, if Spirit has any meaning at all, then it must be eternal, or without beginning or end. If Spirit had a…

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Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the…

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Early morning, the orange sun is slowly rising, shining forth in empty luminous clarity. The mind and the sky are one, the…

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The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it…

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And whatever the form of your own resurrection, you will arise, driven not by the Great Search, but by your own Great…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Is this a topic whose time has truly come? The integration of science and religion? Or have I just written a clever book that…

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In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally…

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Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

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When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude…

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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,…

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I believe that evidence shows that there is a real spirit, a real Beach, but it is beneath no pavement whatsoever, for all pavements…

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Furthermore, it is not that Spirit is present but you need to be enlightened in order to see it. It is not that you…

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

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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 dictionary meaning…

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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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