Grace and Grit: A Love Story

by Ken Wilber

Overview

Now a Major Motion Picture

Heartfelt, deeply moving, and incredibly real, this narrative shares the five-year journey of philosopher Ken Wilber and his wife, Treya Killam Wilber, through Treya’s illness, treatment, and death. Ken’s wide-ranging commentary—which questions conventional and New Age approaches to illness and reaches beyond the experience to find wisdom in pain—is combined with Treya’s journals to create a portrait of health and healing, wholeness and harmony, and suffering and surrender. This edition includes a new preface by the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611808490
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	01/21/2020
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Ken Wilber is one of the most widely read and influential American philosophers of our time. His writings have been translated into over twenty foreign languages. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition ix

Introduction to the Second Edition xiii

A Note to the Reader 3

1 A Few Embraces, a Few Dreams 5

2 Beyond Physics 19

3 Condemned to Meaning 39

4 A Question of Balance 55

5 A Universe Within 77

6 Bodymind Dropped! 92

7 "My Life Had Twisted Suddenly" 105

8 Who Am I? 123

9 Narcissus, or the Self-Contraction 139

10 A Time to Heal 157

11 Psychotherapy and Spirituality 174

12 In a Different Voice 201

13 Estrella 223

14 What Kind of Help Really Helps? 242

15 The New Age 253

16 But Listen to Those Birds Sing! 271

17 "Spring Is Now My Favorite Season" 290

18 But Not a Dead One! 311

19 Passionate Equanimity 333

20 A Support Person 353

21 Grace and Grit 372

22 For a Radiant Star 392

Selected Readings 409

Editorial Reviews

Anyone who has cancer or anyone who is supporting someone with cancer should read this book.”—Tricycle

"A tremendously moving love story. Wilber presents cancer as a healing crisis, an occasion for self-confrontation and growth."—Publishers Weekly

"A singular achievement. It succeeds as a story of one cancer patient's experience, as a guidebook for patients and their caretakers, as a love story, as a survey of the world's mystical traditions, as an examination of death and dying, and as an exploration of relationship as a means for spiritual development."—Natural Health

"A deep and searing look at living, dying, loving, death, and resurrection."—M. Scott Peck, M.D.

"A rare book—a love story that brings the perennial wisdom of the ages to life in all the anguish and exaltation that comprise the human condition. Treya Killam Wilber's honesty, vibrancy, and compassion speak through her many journal entries, masterfully woven with Ken's text, to make Grace and Grit a true experience of sacred partnership."—Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.; author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and Guilt Is the Teacher, Love Is the Lesson

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