Ken Wilber Quotes

Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.

I have overcome most of my fears.

I know how strong I am mentally, how I work on myself.

It's life, so you're a constant evolution of tragedies and achievements and ups and downs. You can probably get a little bit more immune to things, but whatever is the most amount of pain you feel at any given moment feels like the most amount of pain you'll ever feel.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

Grow within the flow.

Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.

The real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

I want to be super well-rounded.

When you're constantly stuck in your comfort zone, it means you're not growing.

You want to stay grounded, but you need to keep the music growing.

Any time I push through a fear, I'm proud of that.

I think it's important to keep moving forward so that the soul can grow.

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.