Ken Wilber Quotes

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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 sensitive viewer out…
• And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere.
• Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it…
• What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is…
• Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
• Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth,…
• Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus…
• Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral…
• The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I.
• I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of…
• As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.
• In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.
• A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes,…
• ....all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like…
• Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One Self that is…
• Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today,…
• What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in…
• I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
• I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on…
• Was it someone else? Was it not you yourself?

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