Ken Wilber. No boundaries. The Eastern and Western path of personal growth (№ 157813)

The man who begins to feel the suffering of life, however, and to awaken to a deeper, true reality. For suffering smashes to pieces the complacency of our normal fictions about reality, forcing you to become in a sense more alive - to see carefully, to feel deeply, to refer to those ways of knowing ourselves and the world, which we have hitherto avoided.