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• The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I.

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  Fall, Philosophical

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

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  Consciousness, Complexity

  Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard, Marco Morelli (2008). “Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your own limitless Being, waving back at you?

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  Night, Sky, Play

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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

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  Awareness, Ends

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• Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

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  Meditation, Soul, Excellence

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

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• The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.

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  Past, Facts, Figures

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.261, Shambhala Publications

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• In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

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  Lying, Book, Reality

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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• It is often said that in today's modern and postmodern world that the forces of darkness are upon us. But I think not; in the Dark and the Deep there are truths that can always heal. It is not the forces of darkness but of shallowness that everywhere threaten the true, and the good, and the beautiful, and that ironically announce themselves as deep and profound. It is an exuberant and fearess shallowness that everywhere is the modern danger, the modern threat, and that everywhere nonetheless calls to us as savior.

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  Beautiful, Dark, Thinking

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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

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  Love, Real, Real Love

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.396, Shambhala Publications

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• "Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.

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  Truth, Mean, Discipline

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line between the opposites. It is, recall, the boundaries themselves which create the seeming existence of separate opposites. To put it plainly, to say that "ultimate reality is a unity of opposites" is actually to say that in ultimate reality there are no boundaries. Anywhere.

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  Real, Believe, Opposites

  Ken Wilber (1979). “No Boundary, Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, Great Eastern Book Company

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• You are not the one who experiences liberation; you are the clearing, the opening, the emptiness, in which any experience comes and goes, like reflections on the mirror. And you are the mirror, the mirror mind, and not any experienced reflection.

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  Reflection, Mirrors, Mind

  "Stages of Meditation". www.patheos.com. June 9, 2014.

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• Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

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  Profound, Force, Method

  Ken Wilber (2011). “The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion”, p.12, Random House

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

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  Arbitrary, Shifting, Truth Is

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

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  Shining, Dawn, Today

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.550, Shambhala Publications

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• When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?

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  Self, Sky, Clouds

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.280, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Ego

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• And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

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  Profound, May, Might

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.189, Shambhala Publications

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• A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing - a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.

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  Mean, Eye, Science

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

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• Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.

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  God, Business, Self

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• When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturbing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are.

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  Girl, Spiritual, Teacher

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• If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who are involved in genuine, laborious, demanding, transrational spiritual practice? This is very difficult, because both markets are referred to as "spiritual," but these two camps really don't get along very well-one is mostly translative, the other is mostly transformative, and they generally disapprove of each other-so how do you put them into one magazine without alienating them both?

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  Spiritual, Practice, Two

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego itself is a perfect manifestation of the Divine, and it is best handled by resting in Freedom, not by trying to get rid of it, which simply increases the effort of the ego itself

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  Two, Perfect, Effort

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.256, Shambhala Publications

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• It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any war between the two. It seems that only when the Ascending and the Descending are united can both be saved. And if we - if you and I - do not contribute to this union, then it is very possible that not only will we destroy the only Earth we have, we will forfeit the only heaven we might otherwise embrace.

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  War, Two, Heaven

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same currents that produced birds from dust and poetry from rocks produce egos from ids and sages from egos.

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  Rocks, Dust, Bird

  Ken Wilber (2000). “Integral Psychology”, p.192, Shambhala Publications

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