Ken Wilber Quotes

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.

Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

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

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

Do you even recognize your own consciousness?

The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness.

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.

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

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?

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

Was it someone else? Was it not you yourself?

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

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.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

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

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.