Ken Wilber on Pain

The more awakened you become, the more evolved you become, the more you actually feel samsara, and the more painful it becomes. And so really the pain increases the more you understand that....And that's on the relative side. So on the relative side the pain increases. It hurts more. But in the absolute side, it bothers you less. And they're both true. And getting that paradox together is part of the whole way that you wrestle with these things.