Ken Wilber Quotes

Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.

We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

I want her to be smart and kind... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.

I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

Every soul on earth is equally precious, even those of plants and animals. If you see love in one area and not another, then you are not reflecting true love for all creatures on earth, only a deficiency in your senses. The light of love sees no walls.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

The world would be a vastly better place if people saw their need for God and accepted Him as Savior and Lord. And then lived by His rule of Love being the most important thing. Can you imagine the world if everyone was motivated by love for others?

Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.