A true process always occurs in quanta, that is, in leaps; or, expressed in quasi-biological and not physical terms, in mutations. It occurs spontaneously, indeterminately, and, consequently, discontinuously. Moreover, we become aware of such presumably invisible processes only when they have reached sufficient strength to manifest themselves on the basis of their cumulative momentum (a limitation we must observe when applying this concept to psychic events). The apparent continuity is no more than a sequence subsequently superimposed onto overlapping events to lend them the reassuring appearance of a logically determinate progression.

This concept of an Integral, time-free consciousness is neither Utopian nor illusory; neither is it a form of wishful thinking. On the contrary, it represents and shapes a richer reality.

Our era is, despite or because of its visible destruction’s, an era of overflowing formative fullness.

Everything that happens to us, then, is only the answer and echo of what and how we ourselves are.

Gebser, Integral Consciousness and Being with this Moment ~ Rune Soup Roundtable

Entirely clear and serene is the heaven within and farther, in many ways, the ascent to origin.

We always lose our way when overtaken by thinking...

Becoming an ego is painful. Hardly anyone finds his [or her] ego prior to the middle of his [and so on] life. Then most people remain stuck in it and become hardened in it. The still more painful process of ego-transcendence with all its crises and relapses is accomplished by only a few. But it is just this ego-transcendence that is the decisive task of human life..."