223 Quotes by Ken Wilber

The only way I could discover how to help someone was by listening. Only when I heard what they were trying to say could I get a sense of what they needed, of the issues they were confronting at that time, of the kind of help that would really help at that specific moment.

Like going to the dentist, where you write: “Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are ‘holistic.’ They can’t fill a cavity but they’re good for your soul. Your teeth rot, but apparently your spirit prospers.”

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.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress – in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

The culture was constantly telling us one thing, and the realities of society were consistently failing to deliver it – the culture was lying. This was a deep and serious legitimation crisis: a culture that is consistently lying to its members simply cannot move forward for long.

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

The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at – and transcendence of – those realms.

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

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.