"..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that……" — Ken Wilber
"..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and the world's great wisdom traditions. Not on the level of details-that is finitely impossible; but on the level of orienting generalizations: a way to suggest that the world really is one, undivided, whole, and related to itself in every way: a holistic philosophy for a holistic Kosmos, a plausible Theory of Everything."
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127 Quotes by Ken Wilber
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As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.
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In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.
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