Ken Wilber Quotes

I have a very strong spiritual base.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religions are, for the most part, bad. But religion is not.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. It's not a strictly spiritual affair; it has psychological roles to fulfill. You might not want it to be a religion based on your own experience but that's like wanting to clean up your dreams

Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

Faith is never identical with piety.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.

Faith is important to me.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

There is nothing specific we have to believe in order to have moral and spiritual lives.

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

I am not a person of faith. I'm a Catholic. I was brought up Catholic, but I'm not a church-going sort of girl. I'm very spiritual. I pray every night. I believe in Heaven and Hell, but I'm not a person that goes to church, like, every Sunday.