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Society forces you to conform.
Freedom is an endless meeting.
I think I was a born scientist.
Religion is just coded spirituality.
What's my philosophy? In a word, integral.
There is nothing in the universe but matter.
Do you even recognize your own consciousness?
Was it someone else? Was it not you yourself?
The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I.
Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.
There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.
I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.
The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.
You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.
The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".
In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.
Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.
Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.
Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.
On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.
You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.
Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you.
And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere.
As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.
One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.
The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.
Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.
Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness.
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.
AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)
Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.
I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.
These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.
The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.
In a special sense... the three great natural states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep contain an entire spectrum of spiritual enlightenment.
Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.
Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?
I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.
If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.
I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.