Quotes from Ken Wilber

that which one can deviate from is not the true Tao.

What do you want?" and so on might be a few of the questions asked and responded to.

No hay creación ni destrucción, Ni destino ni libre albedrío; Ni sendero ni realización; Ésta es la verdad final. SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

One has to die to the separate self in oder to find the universal Self or God […] as the mystics everywhere have repeatedly told us, it is only in accepting death that real life is found. (A Universe within, p. 79)

And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say.

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

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 already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.

There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

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

Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end.

Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.

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

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an increase in ethnocentric love?