Ken Wilber Quotes

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or events. Underneath the surface appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the cosmos that has brought about the form that this moment takes.

I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.