Ken Wilber Quotes

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.

To love is to undress our names.

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.