Ken Wilber Quotes

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

Listen,” F. Jasmine said. “What I’ve been trying to say is this. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I can’t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

We know to much to command ourselves very far.

When I began to read, I began to exist

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

There is still consciousness in hip hop.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.

Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we’re magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.