“On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial…”
–Ken Wilber
I love the integral approach of Ken Wilber that “everybody is right” in their beliefs yet doesn’t fall into the post-modern trap that says all beliefs are relative therefore each person can have their own truth. It’s not that this is false just that they miss that most important part, that it is just one take on a much larger whole that integrates the truths. When we take an integral approach, we look at each person’s truth and the greater truth of which it is a part.
Far too often it seems, people “pretend” to accept that “everybody’s entitled to their truth “and its as good as everybody else’s so i don’t have to listen to others”. The reason i say pretend is that if they really felt that way they wouldn’t be sharing their beliefs with so many they would cling to it…we only share what we wish to have out in the open and test what we are willing to give up. When a child shares candy, he is not looking to keep it.
So yes I have faith (another theme of the evening and day) that my explorations bring me into more and more a fuller awareness of a greater truth. But as Ken Wilber says above, I hope I never believe that I have more than a part.
Blessings, G
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Eagle’s Flight by G A Rosenberg
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