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THE ATMAN PROJECT
Ken Wilber
A transpersonal view of human development, with a profound and lucid insight into our nature and destiny.
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"Every conscious being, precisely as he or she is, is a perfect embodiment and expression of the Ultimate. What every individual is, before he is anything else, is the Dharmakaya – the Body of very Truth."
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"Evolution – wherever it appears – manifests itself as a series of transcendences, of ascents, of emergences – and emergences of higher-order WHOLES."
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"'Anima Naturaliter Christiana', said Tertullian, by which he meant that 'the soul is endowed from the outset with the knowledge of God."
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"There are NO radically separate entities anywhere – the boundary between subject and object is ultimately illusory."
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"The ultimate psychology is a psychology of fundamental Wholeness, or the superconscious All."
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"Wherever there is other, there is fear." The Upanishads
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"At its peak, the soul becomes one, literally one, with the deity-form, with the dhyani-Buddha, with God. One dissolves into Deity, as Deity – that Deity which, from the beginning, has been one's own Self or highest Archetype. In this way only could St. Clement say that he who knows himself knows God." 69
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"ALL individuals are touched by God, and all sentient entities intuit God."
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"Psychological development in humans has the same goal as natural evolution: the production of ever-higher unities. And since the ultimate Unity is Buddha, God, or Atman (to use those terms in their broadest sense as 'ultimate reality'), it follows that psychological growth aims at Atman."
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"As Aristotle put it, when all potential has been actualized, the result is God."
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"In this moment and this moment and this, an individual IS Buddha, is Atman, is the Dharmakaya."
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"All things and events, while remaining perfectly separate and discrete, are only One."
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"As the process of transcendence and integration continues, it discloses ever higher-order unities, leading, consumately, to Unity itself."
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"At the beginning of THIS and every moment, each individual IS God as the Clear Light."
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"Venerable Ones, get to know the One who plays with these shadows. He is the original source of all the Buddhas. Knowing him, wherever you are is home." Zen Master Rinzai
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"Wholeness, according to the perennial psychology, is WHAT is real and ALL that is real. A radically separate, isolated and bounded entity does not exist anywhere. There are no seams in the world, in things, in people or in God."
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"Each successive stage achieves a higher-order unity, and this continues until there is ONLY Unity."
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"Be only love in all conditions."
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"Evolution continues until there is only Unity, ultimate in all directions."
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"All sentient beings possess the Buddha Nature." The Nirvana Sutra
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"Evolution consists of a series of ever-higher wholes until there is only Wholeness. Evolution is holistic because it is nature's remembrance of God."
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"Infinite, all-pervading and all-embracing Consciousness is both One and Many, Only and All, Source and Suchness, Cause and Condition, such that all things are only a gesture of this One, and all forms a play upon it. As Infinity, it demands wonder; as God, it demands worship; as Truth, it demands wisdom; and as one's true Self it demands identity."
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"Everywhere we look in nature, said the philosopher Jan Smuts, we see nothing but wholes. And not just simple wholes, but hierarchical ones: each whole is a part of a larger whole which is itself a part of a larger whole. Fields within fields within fields, stretching through the cosmos, interlacing each and every thing with each and every other."
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"Every individual – every sentient being – constantly intuits that his prior Nature IS the infinite and eternal, All and Whole."
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"Man is born the son of God, participating totally in the nature of the Supreme Principle of the Universe." Hubert Benoit, 'The Supreme Doctrine'
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