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

Quote by Ken Wilber

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Ken Wilber is an American writer and philosopher, born on January 31, 1949. He is the founder of Integral Theory, which aims to integrate human knowledge, philosophy, psychology, and religion. Wilber's work covers a wide range of fields, including personal growth, spiritual development, and cultural studies. more

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Book:Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition

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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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Book:A Brief History of Everything

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“For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.”

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“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.”

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Book:No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

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

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“Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.”

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“The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.”

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