A graceful interpretation covering ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€

“With the supreme identity, you are established in radical Freedom, it is true, but that Freedom ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€ 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 wonโ€™t just hurt others, it will profoundly sabotage your own spiritual development. It will cut off further realizations of Spiritโ€™s 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 โ€œdetractsโ€ from your โ€œrealโ€ 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 ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ the higher Self, but how to see it ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ in culture, ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ in nature, and ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ in social institutions.
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Realized, embraced, embodied, embedded: a more graceful interpretation covering ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€, because Spirit itself manifests as ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€. And this more graceful interpretation facilitates the birth of that Spirit which is ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป. Graceful interpretation midwifes Spiritโ€™s birth, Spiritโ€™s descent. The more adequately I can ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ 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”

 

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