Ken Wilber Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Long Ago, Hands

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.121, Shambhala Publications

• Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture of all humankind--an effort to bring awareness to bear on all aspects of life. It is, in other words, part of what has been called the perennial philosophy.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Effort

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

• 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

  Philosophy, Diversity, Honor

  "The Eye of Spirit : An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad". Book by Ken Wilber, 1997.

• The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest, densest, and most fragmentary realms to the highest, subtlest, and most unitary ones.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Moving, Psychology

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

• What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth-or in heaven-do I mean by "integral"? The dictionary meaning is fairly simple: "comprehensive, balanced, inclusive, essential for completeness." Short definition, tall order.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Mean, Simple

  "An Integral Spirituality". Beliefnet Essay, www.beliefnet.com. March 2004.

• ..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and the world's great wisdom traditions. Not on the level of details-that is finitely impossible; but on the level of orienting generalizations: a way to suggest that the world really is one, undivided, whole, and related to itself in every way: a holistic philosophy for a holistic Kosmos, a plausible Theory of Everything.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Together, World

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