Wilber, Ken (Ken Wilber)

I have one major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody
-- Ken Wilber

The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.
-- Ken Wilber

Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.
-- Ken Wilber

There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.
-- Ken Wilber

We move from part to whole and back again, and in that dance of comprehension, in that amazing circle of understanding, we come alive to meaning, to value, and to vision: the very circle of understanding guides our way, weaving together the pieces, healing the fractures, mending the torn and tortured fragments, lighting the way ahead - this extraordinary movement from part to whole and back again, with healing the hallmark of each and every step, and grace the tender reward.
-- Ken Wilber

The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the integral approach to recognize and honor the Great Holarchy of Being first elucidated by the perennial philosophy and the great wisdom traditions in general. . . The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.
-- Ken Wilber

An acknowledgment of the full spectrum of consciousness would profoundly alter the course of every one of the modern disciplines it touches
-- Ken Wilber

The integral vision, I believe, is more than happy to welcome empirical science as a part
-- Ken Wilber

Anybody can they say they are being "spiritual"
-- Ken Wilber

The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate
-- Ken Wilber

There is arguably no more important and pressing topic tha the relation of science and religion in the modern world. Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. Truth and meaning, science and religion; but we still cannot figure out how to get the two of them together in a fashion that both find acceptable.
-- Ken Wilber

These two enormous forces
-- Ken Wilber

Within the scientific skeleton of truth, religious meaning attempts to fluorish, often by denying the scientific framework itself
-- Ken Wilber

This is a massive and violent schism and rupture in the internal organs of today's global culture and this is exactly why many social analysts believe that if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious.
-- Ken Wilber

I have one major rule: everybody is right. More specifically, everybody
-- Ken Wilber

In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.
-- Ken Wilber

Prana is implicate to matter but explicate to mind; mind is implicate to prana but explicate to soul; soul is implicate to mind but explicate to spirit; and the spirit is the source and suchness of the entire sequence.
-- Ken Wilber

n other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.
-- Ken Wilber

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

Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. ... if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious.
-- Ken Wilber

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

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