Carolina QuotesLet us therefore see their actual conception, in thought and action, and see how many perspectives it actually takes into account and how many perspectives it attempts to integrate, and thus let us see how deep and how wide runs that bodhisattva vow to refuse rest until all perspectives whatsoever are liberated into their primordial nature.
Ken Wilber Connected to the Carolinas
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Ken Wilber in: The Simple Feeling of Being, Shambhala Publications, 2004, p. 209.
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- 2004
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