A Brief History of Everything Quotes

“I’ll tell you what I think. I think the sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they are the leading edge of the self-transcending drive that always goes beyond what went before. I think they embody the very drive of the Kosmos toward greater depth and expanding consciousness. I think they are riding the edge of a light beam racing toward a rendezvous with God. And I think they point to the same depth in you, and in me, and in all of us. I think they are plugged into the All, and the Kosmos sings through their voices, and Spirit shines through their eyes. And I think they disclose the face of tomorrow, they open us to the heart of our own destiny, which is also already right now in the timelessness of this very moment, and in that startling recognition the voice of the sage becomes your voice, the eyes of the sage become your eyes, you speak with the tongues of angels and are alight with the fire of a realization that never dawns nor ceases, you recognize your own true Face in the mirror of the Kosmos itself: your identity is indeed the All, and you are no longer part of that stream, you are that stream, with the All unfolding not around you but in you. The stars no longer shine out there, but in here. Supernovas come into being within your heart, and the sun shines inside your awareness. Because you transcend all, you embrace all. There is no final Whole here, only an endless process, and you are the opening or the clearing or the pure Emptiness in which the entire process unfolds—ceaselessly, miraculously, everlastingly, lightly. The whole game is undone, this nightmare of evolution, and you are exactly where you were prior to the beginning of the whole show. With a sudden shock of the utterly obvious, you recognize your own Original Face, the face you had prior to the Big Bang, the face of utter Emptiness that smiles as all creation and sings as the entire Kosmos—and it is all undone in that primal glance, and all that is left is the smile, and the reflection of the moon on a quiet pond, late on a crystal clear night.”
― Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything

“Because the amazing fact is that truth alone will not set you free. Truthfulness will set you free.”
― Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything

“You can only do so much damage to the biosphere with a bow and arrow. An atomic bomb is something else. The same ignorance backed by industry is capable of killing the entire world. So we have to separate those two issues—the ignorance and the means of inflicting that ignorance—because with modernity and science we have, for the first time in history, a way to overcome our ignorance, at precisely the same time that we have created the means to make this ignorance absolutely genocidal on a global scale.”
― Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything

“So perhaps we can learn to value the differences between the male and female value spheres. Those differences, even according to the radical feminists, appear to be here for good—but we can learn to value them with more equal emphasis. How to do so is one of the things we might want to talk about.”
― Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything

“Como sucedía en todas las ciudades-estado, la ciudad de Atenas tenía sus propios dioses y diosas míticas, en nombre de los cuales condenó a Sócrates «por ser culpable de negarse a reconocer a los dioses del Estado… y el castigo que merece es la muerte». Y cuando se le preguntó, como era habitual, que sugiriera un castigo alternativo, él propuso nada menos que ser alimentado por el Estado. Sócrates, en suma, eligió la razón sobre el mito y por ello fue condenado a beber la cicuta. Mil quinientos años más tarde el mundo dio un vuelco, la polis obligó a los dioses a beber la cicuta y de la muerte de esos dioses surgieron las modernas democracias.”
― Ken Wilber, Breve historia de todas las cosas (Sabiduría perenne)

“Aun en el caso de que usted aporte su propia interpretación individual sobre Hamlet —lo cual es absolutamente correcto—, esa interpretación estará arraigada en las realidades y los contextos de su vida real. ¡En cualquier caso, el hecho es que la interpretación no es algo meramente arbitrario!”
― Ken Wilber, Breve historia de todas las cosas (Sabiduría perenne)

“¡Esa especie de paracaidista que contempla el mundo desde fuera está hundido hasta el cuello en contextos y sustratos que determinan el alcance de su visión!”
― Ken Wilber, Breve historia de todas las cosas (Sabiduría perenne)

“Pero, sea inocente o arrogante, sagrada o profana, la ignorancia es la ignorancia y toda ignorancia destruye la biosfera.”
― Ken Wilber, Breve historia de todas las cosas (Sabiduría perenne)

“El Espíritu no es un estadio particular ni una ideología concreta ni tampoco un dios o una diosa preferidos sino la totalidad del proceso de desarrollo, un proceso infinito que, aunque se halla completamente presente en cada uno de los estadios finitos, deviene cada vez más accesible en cada nueva apertura evolutiva.”
― Ken Wilber, Breve historia de todas las cosas (Sabiduría perenne)