Quotes from Ken Wilber

I think I was a born scientist.

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

The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.

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

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

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

God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

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

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

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

In other words, this world is not a sin; forgetting that "this world" is the radiance and Goodness of Spirit—there is the sin.

At the Integral stages of development, the entire universe starts to make sense, to hang together, to actually appear as a uni-verse—a "one world"—a single, unified, integrated world that unites not only different philosophies and ideas about the world, but different practices for growth and development as well.

the Many returning to and embracing the One is Good, and is known as wisdom; the One returning to and embracing the Many is Goodness, and is known as compassion.

Todo sucede como si de un modo deliberado nos estuvièramos pelliscando dolorosamente a nosotros mismos y pretendièramos, al mismo tiempo, que no es asì.

Nihilism and narcissism are not traits that any leading-edge can actually operate with.

She runs in my blood and beats in my heart; she is part of me, always, so I don't have to picture her to remember her.

Suffering is not just "negative"; it is a bond through which we all touch each other. Suffering, truly, is the first grace. Dear

authenticity always and absolutely carries a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.

The cure for the disaster of modernity is to address the dissociation, not attempt to erase the differentiation!

As Wittgenstein said, "If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

El dios, o la diosa, del capitalismo, del marxismo, del industrialismo, de la ecología profunda, del consumismo o del ecofeminismo es el dios de lo que puede verse con los ojos, percibirse con los sentidos, registrarse con los sentimientos o venerarse con las sensaciones, un dios al que puede hincarse el diente y que se agota en las formas.

Thus, to see all memory as present experience is to collapse the boundaries of this present moment, to free it of illusory limits, to deliver it from the opposites of past vs. future. It becomes obvious that there is nothing behind you in time nor before you in time. You thus have nowhere to stand but in the timeless present, and thus nowhere to stand but in eternity.

That is, my experience is that when the bodymind is strong and healthy—not ascetically starved and despised—it is all the easier to drop it, transcend it, let it go.