Ken Wilber Quotes

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.