Author of quotes: Ken Wilber

Every wine is a state of being lost in the past; every anxiety is a state of being lost in the future.

The man who begins to feel the suffering of life, however, and to awaken to a deeper, true reality. For suffering smashes to pieces the complacency of our normal fictions about reality, forcing you to become in a sense more alive - to see carefully, to feel deeply, to refer to those ways of knowing ourselves and the world, which we have hitherto avoided.

My mind, my body, my thoughts, my desires belong to my authentic self no more than the trees, stars, clouds and mountains, for I with the same success can contemplate all these objects. Continuing in the same spirit, I begin to reveal your authentic self and to realize that what I are, in a sense, goes far beyond this isolated, limited skin of the body. The more I penetrate into me, the more I fall out of the "I".

The dust and stones of the pavement were like precious gold... the Kids jumping on the street, were real gems. I knew that they were not born and will not die. But all things always were such with what is, and at the proper location. In the light of day was revealed to eternity.

Eliminating the negative is equivalent to the elimination of the ability to enjoy positive.

Growth is a continuous map editing; recognition and then enable all the deeper and more comprehensive levels of consciousness.