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Prana is implicate to matter but explicate to mind; mind is implicate to prana but explicate to soul; soul is implicate to mind but explicate to spirit; and the spirit is the source and suchness of the entire sequence.

— Ken Wilber Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm (1984)

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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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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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