Ken Wilber Quotes

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• The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

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  Opposites, Negative, Discovering

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• I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

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  Truth, Important, Pieces

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.160, Shambhala Publications

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• To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

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  Circles, Understanding, Chaos

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.200, Shambhala Publications

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

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  Way

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• You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.

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  Development, Interiors, Exterior

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• 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 does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

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  Self, Doe, World

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

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  Growing, Mental Illness, Unhappiness

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• The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit.

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  Spiritual, Order, Practice

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• Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

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  Cutting, Path, Tomorrow

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• THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.

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  Reality, Two, Secret

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• 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, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot

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  Space, Silence, Shining

  Ken Wilber (2000). “Integral Psychology”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love.

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  Love, Running, Hurt

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• In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your own limitless Being, waving back at you?

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  Night, Sky, Play

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This means that there are aspects of reality that have not yet arisen in our consciousness. But they will arise if we grow.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Reality

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• The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.

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  Giving, Meditation, Mind

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

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  War, Opposites, Understanding

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• Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And that Spirit, that I AMness, is always present in all sentient beings.

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  Eye, Ears, Hearing

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• You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the thoughts and ideas and images floating in front of the mind's inward eye. You can, in other words, experience your mind, be aware of your mind. And it's very important to experience your mind directly, cleanly, intensely, because only by bringing awareness to the mind can you begin to transcend the mind and be free of its limitations.

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  Eye, Ideas, Mind

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.

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  Real, Imagination, World

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

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  Truthfulness

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• As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.

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  Consciousness, Humankind

  Ken Wilber (1999). “The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden”, Shambhala Publications

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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 to internally transform, from egocentric to sociocentric to worldcentric consciousness, which is the only stance that can grasp the global dimensions of the problem in the first place, and thus the only stance that can freely, even eagerly, embrace global solutions.

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  Real, People, Firsts

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.541, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

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  Smart, Believe, Errors

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• Spirit forgets that it's Spirit and condenses to a smaller version of itself, which is soul. Soul forgets that it's soul and condenses to mind. Mind forgets that it's mind and condenses to body. Body forgets that it's body and condenses to the lowest dimension that you can have, which is matter.

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  Soul, Mind, Body

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• 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, and it is best handled by resting in Freedom, not by trying to get rid of it, which simply increases the effort of the ego itself

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  Two, Perfect, Effort

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.256, Shambhala Publications

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