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The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance—the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).

— Ken Wilber Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995)

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An argument can be legitimately sustained only if the participants are speaking about the same level.

The Spectrum of Consciousness (1993)

There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.

A Brief History of Everything (1996)

Human beings undergo psychological development. At each level or stage of development, they will see the world in a different way.

Which Level of God Do You Believe In? (2004)

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.

Forward to Integral Medicine: A Noetic Reader (2003)

Attunement could occur through any of the great religions, but would be tied exclusively to none of them.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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