Ken Wilber Quotes

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

I became really interested in the study of consciousness.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

In my mind, creativity is consciousness.

Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

We're very highly evolved, and we should be very responsible for what we've learned.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

Mind is not your intelligence.

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly