Ken Wilber Quotes

Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.

Ken Wilber

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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Approach

• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Past

• I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Mind
  • Feel
  • Ready

• Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Better
  • Million

• A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Always

• Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Nature
  • Nice
  • Better

• I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Me

• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Me

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Father

• The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Doing

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Flame

• Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Impossible

• You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Death

• When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • People
  • Church
  • Strange

• Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.

  

  Ken Wilber
  • Mind
  • Nature