“With the supreme identity, you are established in radical Freedom, it is true, but that Freedom ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐๐ as compassionate activity, as agonizing concern. The Form of Freedom is sorrow, unrelenting worry for those struggling to awaken. The Bodhisattva weeps daily; the tears stain the very fabric of the Kosmos in all directions. The Heart moves into those places where Spirit remains unheralded and unheard; the work is a passion, an agony; it is always fully accomplished, and thus never ending.
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But if you keep interpreting Spirit as simply a higher or sacred Self โ ignoring Spirit in the other quadrants โ then that is going to abort further realization. It wonโt just hurt others, it will profoundly sabotage your own spiritual development. It will cut off further realizations of Spiritโs all-pervading presence. You will just keep retreating into your interior awareness, until that well runs dry, and you end up despising the manifest world because it โdetractsโ from your โrealโ self.
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On the other hand, a more graceful unpacking facilitates further and deeper intuitions, intuitions touching the I and the We and the It domains: not just how ๐๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ the higher Self, but how to see it ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑ in culture, ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฑ in nature, and ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ in social institutions.
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Realized, embraced, embodied, embedded: a more graceful interpretation covering ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ณ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐พ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐, because Spirit itself manifests as ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ณ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐พ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐. And this more graceful interpretation facilitates the birth of that Spirit which is ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป. Graceful interpretation midwifes Spiritโs birth, Spiritโs descent. The more adequately I can ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ the intuition of Spirit, the more that Spirit can speak to me, the more the channels of communication are open, leading from communication to communion to union to identity โ the supreme identity.”
Ken Wilber, “A brief history of Everything”
