"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then with the Witness or primordial Self, then with each previous stage taken up, enfolded,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego itself is a perfect manifestation of the Divine,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
