Ken Wilber

What's my philosophy? In a word, integral.

— Ken Wilber

I think I was a born scientist.

— Ken Wilber

There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.

— Ken Wilber

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

— Ken Wilber

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

— Ken Wilber

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...

— Ken Wilber

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

— Ken Wilber

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

— Ken Wilber

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds…

— Ken Wilber

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our…

— Ken Wilber

The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is…

— Ken Wilber

What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth — or in heaven — do I mean by integral? The…

— Ken Wilber

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting…

— Ken Wilber

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

— 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

One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you…

— Ken Wilber

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

— Ken Wilber

To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your…

— Ken Wilber

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

— Ken Wilber

“The simple fact is that we live in a world of conflict and opposites because we live in a world of boundaries.…

— Ken Wilber

“To the extent that you actually realize that you are not, for example, your anxieties, then your anxieties no longer threaten you.…

— Ken Wilber

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

— Ken Wilber

If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a…

— Ken Wilber

But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see…

— Ken Wilber

“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an…

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If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who…

— Ken Wilber

“And scholars of the mystical, or esoteric, or inner teachings of the world’s Great Traditions are fairly unanimous in saying that although…

— Ken Wilber

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

— Ken Wilber

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

— Ken Wilber

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

— Ken Wilber