For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is not the highest and greatest mode of consciousness which can be attained - there lie ahead the realms of the superconscious and the pitiful ego, by comparison, is as a speck of nothingness.

The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden (ed. Shambhala Publications, 1999) - ISBN: 9781570625022