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An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more evolved, more developed, more adequate. (Ken Wilber)
A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing - a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit. View quote
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The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well. View quote
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What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher. View quote
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My ankle hurts from dancing last night so there is pain. But the pain doesn't hurt me for there is no me. View quote
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This would be something added to one's religion, not subtracted from it. The only thing it would subtract (and there's no way around this) is the belief that one's own path is the only true path to salvation. View quote
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We have, for the first time in history, easy access to all of the world's great religions. Examine the many great traditions - from Christianity to Buddhism, Islam to Taoism, Paganism to Neoplatonism - and you are struck by two items: there are an enormous number of differences between them, and a handful of striking similarities. When you find a few essential items that all, or virtually all, of the world's great religions agree on, you have probably found something incredibly important about the human condition, at least as important as, say, a few things that physicists can manage to agree on. View quote
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There are several different meanings of the words "religion" and "spirituality," all of which are important. View quote
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An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. View quote
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An argument can be legitimately sustained only if the participants are speaking about the same level. View quote
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At no point I have ever said: Freud is wrong, Buddha is wrong, liberals are wrong, conservatives are wrong. I have only suggested that they are true but partial. My critical writings have never attacked the central beliefs of any discipline, only the claims that the particular discipline has the only truth - and on those grounds I have often been harsh. But every approach, I honestly believe, is essentially true but partial, true but partial, true but partial. And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial... (Ken Wilber)
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. View quote
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Modern science is no longer denying spirit. And that, that is epochal. View quote
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Finally, integral spirituality - as the very name "integral" implies - transcends and includes science, it does not exclude, repress, or deny science. View quote
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The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance. View quote
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An integral approach even makes room for those who did the disowning to you. View quote
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If humanity is ever to cease its swarming hostilities and be united in one family, without squashing the significant and important differences among us, then something like an integral approach seems the only way. Until that time, religions will continue to brutally divide humanity, as they have throughout history, and not unite, as they must if they are to be a help, not a hindrance, to tomorrow's existence. View quote
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Anybody can they say they are being "spiritual" View quote
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Human beings undergo psychological development. At each level or stage of development, they will see the world in a different way. View quote
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But the integral approach emphatically does not make that suggestion. View quote
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Anybody can they say they are being "spiritual" - and they are, because everybody has some type and level of concern. Let us therefore see their actual conception, in thought and action, and see how many perspectives it is in fact concerned with, and how many perspectives it actually takes into account, and how many perspectives it attempts to integrate. (Ken Wilber)
Spirit, by whatever name, exists. 2. Spirit, although existing "out there," is found "in here," or revealed within to the open heart and mind. View quote
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The fascinating part is that these three perspectives might actually give rise to art, morals, and science. Or the Beautiful, the Good, and the True: the Beauty that is in the eye (or the "I") of the beholder; the Good or moral actions that can exist between you and me as a "we"; and the objective Truth about third-person objects (or "its") that you and I might discover: hence, art ("I"), morals ("we"), and science ("it"). View quote
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It is the integrative power of vision-logic, I believe, and not the indissociation of tribal magic or the imperialism of mythic involvement that is desperately needed on a global scale. View quote
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The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. View quote
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