Ken Wilber Quotes

I want people to find their inner depth.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority - to the very innermost shrine of your being.

You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune with your being, you know the way, you know the how. Then it does not matter where you are. Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the same. You can simply close your eyes and disappear inwards.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

I'm actually very spiritual.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.