Firsts Quotes by Ken Wilber

10 Firsts quotes by Ken Wilber

Wilber’s integral perspective often folds the personal and the universal together. These ten succinct thoughts on first experiences provide a quick, thought‑provoking snapshot of his holistic view.

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If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in…

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Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that…

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Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else…

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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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Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior…

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What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you,…

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If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free…

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The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the…

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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…

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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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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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