Carolina QuotesAnybody can they say they are being "spiritual"—and they are, because everybody has some type and level of concern. Let us therefore see their actual conception, in thought and action, and see how many perspectives it is in fact concerned with, and 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 own primordial nature.
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- The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad (1997)
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- 1997
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“Anybody can they say they are being "spiritual"—and they are…” Ken Wilber. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-E2DD6F8EA4. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/e2dd6f8ea4
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