Ken Wilber Quotes

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.

I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I know who I am and what I do.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.