Quotes from Ken Wilber

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

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.

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.

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

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

Man, the mask of God

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality.

This present moment, since it knows neither past nor future, is itself timeless, and that which is timeless is Eternal. Thus "the eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

The adventure of awakening is among the most universal of human dramas.

I was slowly learning that love did not mean holding on, which I had always thought, but rather letting go.

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

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.

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

Buddhist discipline is designed to transmute trishna, or egoic narcissism, into Karuna, Divine Narcissism; that is, to transmute self-love, which excludes love of others, into Self-love, which is love of others.

Between life's stimuli and our habitual responses exists choice.

If the soul wants to know God, it cannot do so in time. For so long as the soul is conscious of time or space or any other [object], it cannot know God.

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.

The beauty of practice is that it transforms us so that we outgrow our original intentions—and keep going! Our motivations for practicing evolve as we mature.

When most people are happy, it's not really fun until you can share it with someone, especially someone you love, a mate or a friend.

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.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

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

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.